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Born the son of Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, Stopford was appointed a Lieutenant in the
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Admiral
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Robert Fanshawe Stopford (19 December 1811 – 4 January 1891) was a Royal Navy
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officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Channel Squadron.
Naval career
Born the son of Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, Stopford was appointed a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy
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in 1830 and, as Commander of HMS ''Zebra'', took part in operations off the coast of Syria
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during the Oriental Crisis in 1840.William Loney RN/ref> Promoted to
captain
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in 1840, he was given command of HMS ''Talbot'' in which he surveyed the Skerki Channel off Sardinia
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. He later commanded HMS ''Asia'' and then HMS ''Queen''. He was made Captain of the Fleet for the Channel Squadron
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in June 1860 and Commander-in-Chief, Channel Squadron in October 1860.
In retirement Stopford lived at Mount Ararat
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a mansion at Richmond Hill.
Family
In 1843 he married Emily Anna Wilbraham; they had five sons and two daughters.The Peerage.com/ref> Following the death of his first wife in 1862, he married Lucy Hester Hornby, the daughter of Admiral Sir Phipps Hornby, in 1865.
See also
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