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Capt. Fanshawe was born in 1740, and entered the Navy in 1763. He bore a part in the three general actions between Vice-Admiral Pocock and the Comte d’Ache in 1758-9; commanded the Carysfort 28, and Monmouth 64, at the reduction of New York in Sept. 1776, and in the action between Byron and D’Estaing, off Grenada, in July, 1779; and served aa Flag-Captain to Sir George B. Rodney on the glorious 12 April, 1782. From 1784 until 1789, he sat as M.P. for Plymouth; and at the period of his death, 4 Feb. 1823, he had been upwards of twenty-six years resident commissioner of the dockyard at that place. He would then, had he accepted his flag instead of the latter appointment, have been senior Admiral of the Red. (English)

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A Naval Biographical Dictionary

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