Radio pioneer, businessman.
Ernest Fisk joined the Marconi company in England 1906 and learned morse and wireless telegraphy. After qualifying as a radio engineer and operator he worked for American Marconi, demonstrating wireless to the Newfoundland sealers and on the St Lawrence, before returning to Marconi's administrative headquarters in London. Fisk came to Australia briefly in 1910 but returned the following year and stayed. He went on to become a co-founder and later Managing Director and Chairman of Amalgamated Wireless Australasia (AWA) and in his later years served as Managing Director of the EMI music empire (1944-1952). He was knighted on 11 May 1937.
Sir Ernest Fisk was the father Ernest Kelvin Fisk.