TOM CLARK AND MARIE LE CONTE
She drove the real artillery, but it was think tanks like the IEA that fought the battle of ideas for her
PETER JORDAN / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO
Anthony Fisher was the man who brought batteryfarming to Britain. It may have been a cruel practice, but it was a transformatively efficient one—it turned chicken from a luxury into a British staple, and made this old Etonian fabulously rich along the way.