A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Fanshawe, Henry
FANSHAWE, K.S.V. (Captain, 1814. f-p., 16; h-p., 33.)
Henry Fanshawe, born 9 Dec. 1778, at Shiplake, co. Oxford, is eldest son of the late Henry Fanshawe, Esq., a Colonel in the British Guards, and subsequently a General Officer in the service of Russia (who, after holding the governments of Kioo and of the Crimea, died a Russian senator in 1828), by Susanna Frances, daughter of Chas. Le Grys, Esq., of Norwich. Capt. Fanshawe is brother of General Wm. Simon Fanshawe, of the Russian service, who died in 1829 – of Fred. Fanshawe, Esq. (Chamberlain to the Emperors Alexander and Nicholas), who was murdered by the Poles in 1830 – and of Lieut.-General Geo. Fanshawe, also an officer in the service of His Imperial Majesty. He is cousin of Capt. Arthur Fanshawe, R.N., C.B.
This officer entered the Navy, 8 Sept. 1798, as A.B., on board the Kent 74, Capt. Wm. Hope, flag-ship in succession of Admirals Lord Duncan and Sir Rich. Hussey Bickerton, under whom he attended the expedition to Holland in 1799, and, in 1801, accompanied the force sent against Egypt, where he served on shore, as Midshipman, in the battles of 8, 13, and 21 March. In Sept. 1803, he followed Sir R. Bickerton into the Royal Sovereign 100; after which he joined the Agincourt 64, Capt. Thos. Briggs, lying at Chatham; and on 25 May, 1805, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. In July and Dec. following Mr. Fanshawe became successively attached to the Malabar 54, Capt. Robt. Hall, and Swift sloop, Capt. Wright, in the former of which vessels he went to the West Indies. After a servitude of exactly two years in the Courageux 74, Capt. Jas. Bissett, employed chiefly at the blockade of Cadiz, he obtained command, 2 May, 1808, of the Grasshopper 18. On 24 Dec. 1811, we find the latter vessel in company with the Hero 74, when that ship was lost in a dreadful gale on the Haak sand; and, as the sole means of avoiding the same fate, surrendering herself to the Dutch fleet in the Texel. Capt. Fanshawe, who accordingly became a prisoner, and, we believe, remained in captivity during the rest of the war, attained Post-rank 7 June, 1814. He accepted the retirement 1 Oct. 1846.
Capt. Fanshawe, a Knight of the order of St. Vladamir of Russia, married, first, 10 May, 1810, Anna Maria, daughter of Lieut.-General John Jenkinson, Joint Secretary for Ireland, and brother of the first Earl of Liverpool; and secondly, 20 Jan. 1823, Caroline, daughter of F. F. Luttrell, Esq., and grand-daughter of J. F. Luttrell, Esq., of Dunster Castle, co. Somerset. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.