Captain Guy Dalrymple Fanshawe (30 March 1882 – 19 June 1962) was a

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officer who also served as

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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 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Dalrymple Fanshawe, (2 April 1847 – 21 January 1936) was a Royal Navy officer. As a captain he became commanding officer, successively, of the troopships and , which were tasked with ferrying troops between ...

(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

, he was promoted to acting

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on 15 November 1901 and subsequently confirmed in that rank from the same date. In November 1902 he was ordered for a posting with the

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HMS ''Syren'', but this was cancelled and the following month he was re-assigned to the

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HMS ''Alarm''. Fanshawe was promoted to the rank of

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on 15 August 1903, served as a

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, and retired from the navy in 1923 at his own request. He was promoted to

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in retirement on 30 March 1927.

Political career

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* Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies Military personnel from Cornwall 1882 births Graduates of Britannia Royal Naval College 1962 deaths UK MPs 1924–1929 Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs Royal Navy officers of World War I Fanshawe family {{Conservative-UK-MP-1880s-stub