Admiral
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Sir Edward Gennys Fanshawe, (27 November 1814 – 21 October 1906) was a
Royal Navy
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officer who went on to be
Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth
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. He was a gifted amateur artist, with much of his work in the
National Maritime Museum
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, London.
Naval career
Born the eldest surviving son of General Sir Edward Fanshawe, and the nephew of
Admiral Sir Arthur Fanshawe, Fanshawe was educated at the
Royal Naval Academy, Portsmouth where he came second from the top in a very talented year and was commended for both his artistic and writing ability.
[''Admiral Sir Edward Gennys Fanshawe GCB'', published 1904] Fanshawe joined the
Royal Navy
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in 1828.
During the
Oriental Crisis of 1840
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he took part in the capture of
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.
[ He was subsequently given command of and then .][
He took part in the ]Crimean War
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as captain of .[ Later he commanded , and then .][ He suffered some health problems from the 1850s, which curtailed his ]Mediterranean
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command of HMS ''Centurion''.[
He was made Superintendent of ]Chatham Dockyard
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in 1861, Third Naval Lord
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in 1865 and Superintendent of Malta Dockyard
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in 1868.[
He went on to be ]Commander-in-Chief, North American Station
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in 1870, Admiral President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich
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in 1875 and Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth
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in 1878.[ He retired in 1879.][
From the early 1850s he and his family lived at Rutland Gate in London. He later moved to 63 Eaton Square and finally to 75 Cromwell Road in ]Kensington
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, where he died on Trafalgar Day
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History
The formation of the Navy Lea ...
1906.[
]
Family
Fanshawe's marriage to Jane Cardwell took place in early 1843; she was the sister of Edward (later Lord) Cardwell, a notable politician and, as Secretary of State for War
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under William Gladstone in the 1860s, instigator of the 'Cardwell Reforms
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' of the British Army
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.[
They had four sons and a daughter, including:
* Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Cardwell Fanshawe, of the ]Royal Engineers
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, who married in 1900 Alice Drew, daughter of Colonel George Drew, CB.
* Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Dalrymple Fanshawe (1847–1936),[ whose son ]Guy Dalrymple Fanshawe
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Naval career
Fanshawe was born in Falmouth to Cap ...
also became a Royal Naval Captain
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.[
* Alice Fanshawe][
]
Further reading
* ''Admiral Sir Edward Gennys Fanshawe GCB'', published 1904, edited by Alice Fanshawe and illustrated with Edward Fanshawe's own drawings
* Albums of over 100 drawings covering his Pacific voyage in the ''Daphne'' and the other later activities, mainly in the Baltic Sea
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and the Mediterranean
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with some of his holiday drawings in Scotland
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and Switzerland
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from 1843 to 1883, held by the National Maritime Museum
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