Edward Fanshawe


Admiral Sir Edward Gennys Fanshawe, was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth. He was a gifted amateur artist, with much of his work in the National Maritime museum, 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. Fanshawe joined the Royal Navy in 1828. During the Oriental Crisis of 1840 he took part in the capture of Acre. He was subsequently given command of and then.
sketch of Susan Young, the only surviving Tahitian woman on Pitcairn's Island
." Painted by Fanshawe in 1856.
He took part in the Crimean War as captain of. Later he commanded, and then. He suffered some health problems from the 1850s, which curtailed his Mediterranean command of HMS Centurion.
He was made Superintendent of Chatham Dockyard in 1861, Third Naval Lord in 1865 and Superintendent of Malta Dockyard in 1868.
He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, North American Station in 1870, Admiral President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich in 1875 and Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth 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, where he died on Trafalgar Day 1906.

Family

Fanshawe's marriage to Jane Cardwell took place in early 1843; she was the sister of Edward 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.
They had four sons and a daughter, including: