Captain Guy Dalrymple Fanshawe (30 March 1882 – 19 June 1962)[1] was a Royal Navy officer who also served as Unionist Party (Scotland) MP for Stirling and Clackmannan Western from 1924 to 1929.
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Fanshawe was born in Falmouth to Captain (later Admiral of the Fleet Sir) Arthur Dalrymple Fanshawe (1847–1936) by his wife Sarah Frances Fox. He came from a family with a long tradition of naval service, his grandfather Sir Edward Gennys Fanshawe had also been an Admiral.
He passed out of Britannia Naval College in December, 1897 sixty-first out of the sixty-four cadets who passed out, with 1178 marks.[2] After joining the Royal Navy, he was promoted to acting sub-lieutenant on 15 November 1901 and subsequently confirmed in that rank from the same date.[3] In November 1902 he was posted to the destroyer HMS Syren, serving in the instructional flotilla at Portsmouth.[4]
Fanshawe was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant (Royal Navy) on 15 August 1903.
Political career[]
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External links[]
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Guy Dalrymple Fanshawe
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