Edward Fanshawe
Admiral Sir Edward Fanshawe | |
|---|---|
| Born | 27 November 1814 Stoke, Devon |
| Died | 21 October 1906 (aged 91) |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service/ |  Royal Navy |
| Rank | Admiral |
| Commands held | HMS Cruizer HMS Daphne HMS Cossack HMS Hastings HMS Centurion HMS Trafalgar North American Station Royal Naval College, Greenwich Portsmouth Command |
| Battles/wars | Oriental Crisis |
| Awards | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath |
Born the eldest surviving son of General Sir Edward Fanshawe,[1] 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.[2] Fanshawe joined the Royal Navy in 1828.[3] During the Oriental Crisis of 1840 he took part in the capture of Acre.[3] He was subsequently given command of HMS Cruizer and then HMS Daphne.[3]
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From the early 1850s he and his family lived at Rutland Gate in London.[4] He later moved to 63 Eaton Square and finally to 75 Cromwell Road in Kensington, where he died on Trafalgar Day 1906.[2]
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 under William Gladstone in the 1860s, instigator of the 'Cardwell Reforms' of the British Army.[2]
They had four sons and a daughter, including:
- Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Cardwell Fanshawe, of the Royal Engineers, who married in 1900 Alice Drew, daughter of Colonel George Drew, CB.[5]
- Alice Fanshawe[2]
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 Mediterranean with some of his holiday drawings in Scotland and Switzerland from 1843 to 1883, held by the National Maritime Museum
See also
- O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). . . John Murray – via Wikisource.
References
- ^ Laughton, John Knox (1912). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ a b c d e f Admiral Sir Edward Gennys Fanshawe GCB, published 1904
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33077. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ "'Rutland Gate: Twentieth-Century Redevelopments', Survey of London: volume 45: Knightsbridge (2000), pp. 152–156". Retrieved 3 August 2010.
- ^ "Marriages". The Times. No. 36084. London. 8 March 1900. p. 1.
