Admiral Sir Arthur Fanshawe KCB

Order of the Bath

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 (5 February 1794 – 14 June 1864) was a Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth

Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth

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Naval career

Fanshawe joined the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 in 1804. Promoted to Captain

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 in 1816, he commanded HMS Donegal

HMS Donegal (1798)

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 from 1832 and then HMS Princess Charlotte

HMS Princess Charlotte (1825)

HMS Princess Charlotte was a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 September 1825 at Portsmouth. The occasion was notable for the fact that the gates of the dry dock into which she was to be placed burst because of the high tide and more than 40 people were...

 during the Oriental Crisis

Oriental Crisis of 1840

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 in 1840.

He was appointed Commodore, West Coast of Africa

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 in 1849, Commander-in-chief, North America and West Indies in 1853 and Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet

Mediterranean Fleet

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 in 1858. His last appointment was as Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth

Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth

The Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth was a senior commander of the Royal Navy for hundreds of years. Plymouth Command was a name given to the units, establishments, and staff operating under the admiral's command. In the nineteenth century the holder of the office was known as Commander-in-Chief,...

 from June 1860.

He died at Regent's Park

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 in London

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 and left his estates in Hampshire

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 to his nephew

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, Admiral Sir Edward Fanshawe

Edward Fanshawe

Admiral Sir Edward Gennys Fanshawe GCB was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth.-Naval career:...

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