Guy Fanshawe

Captain Guy Dalrymple Fanshawe (30 March 1882 – 19 June 1962) was a Royal Navy officer who also served as Unionist Party (Scotland) MP for Stirling and Clackmannan Western from 1924 to 1929.

Naval career
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. 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. In November 1902 he was posted to the destroyer HMS Syren, serving in the instructional flotilla at Portsmouth.

Fanshawe was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant (Royal Navy) on 15 August 1903.

Political career

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Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies
Category:1882 births
Category:1962 deaths
Category:UK MPs 1924–1929
Category:Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs
Category:Royal Navy officers of World War I