Edward Gennys Fanshawe R.N.
Edward Gennys Fanshawe R.N.
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Edward Gennys Fanshawe R.N. | Explanation |
Son of General Edward Fanshawe, R.E. |
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Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal |
27 November 1814 | | Born (Stoke Damerel, Devon) |
6 May 1843 | | Married Jane (1815-1900) , daughter of John Cardwell (1781-1831), and sister of Edward (1813-1886, afterwards 1st Viscount) Cardwell |
20 May 1871 | | C.B. (Companion of the Bath) |
24 May 1881 | | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath) |
21 June 1887 | | G.C.B. (Knight Grand Cross of the Bath) |
21 October 1906 | | Died (Cromwell Road, London) |
Entry in O'Byrnes 1849 'Naval Biographical Dictionary' |
Obituary in the Times newspaper |
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Date | Rank |
18 December 1828 | Entered Navy |
15 August 1835 | Lieutenant |
28 August 1841 | Commander |
7 September 1845 | Captain |
3 November 1863 | Rear-Admiral |
1 April 1870 | Vice-Admiral |
18 June 1876 | Admiral |
27 November 1879 | Retired Admiral |
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Date from | Date to | Service |
2 December 1833 | 4 December 1833 | Midshipman in Melville |
5 December 1833 | 31 July 1835 | Mate in Melville |
19 November 1835 | 8 February 1836 | Lieutenant in Hastings, commanded by Captain Henry Shiffner, Lisbon |
9 February 1836 | 31 December 1837 | Lieutenant in Magicienne, commanded by Captain William St. John Mildmay, Lisbon |
9 January 1838 | 16 November 1838 | Lieutenant in Victory, Acting Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, Admiral-Superintendent at Portsmouth |
17 November 1838 | 1 November 1841 | Lieutenant in Daphne, commanded by Captain John Windham Dalling, Mediterranean (including operations on the coast of Syria in 1840) |
7 September 1844 | 24 June 1846 | Commander in Cruizer, East Indies |
26 October 1848 | 14 August 1852 | Captain in Daphne (from commissioning at Chatham), Pacific |
16 August 1854 | 28 August 1855 | Captain in Cossack (from commissioning at Chatham), the Baltic during the Russian War |
29 August 1855 | 14 May 1856 | Captain in Hastings (until paying off at Portsmouth), the Baltic during the Russian War, then Queenstown |
15 May 1856 | 6 July 1858 | Captain in Centurion, Mediterranean (until Fanshawe was invalided) |
7 June 1859 | 16 April 1861 | Captain in Trafalgar (from commissioning at Sheerness), Channel squadron |
17 April 1861 | 18 November 1863 | Captain in Wellesley, Chatham, Guard Ship of Ordinary, and Training Ship (and Captain-Superintendent of Chatham dockyard) |
25 March 1865 | 13 July 1866 | Commissioner of the Admiralty (3rd Naval Lord) |
23 May 1868 | 8 June 1870 | Superintendent of Malta Dockyard, flag in Hibernia |
16 September 1870 | 4 January 1874 | Commander-in-chief, North America and West Indies, flag in Royal Alfred |
1 February 1876 | 28 February 1878 | President of the (reconstituted) Royal Naval College |
1 March 1878 | 27 November 1879 | Commander-in-chief, Portsmouth, flag in Duke of Wellington |