General Sir Anthony Blaxland Stransham GCB (22 December 1805 – 6 October 1900) was a senior officer in the Royal Marines.

[1] Stransham was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Stransham of the Royal Marines, and grandson of Major Samuel Stransham, also of the Royal Marines, who raised the Union Flag on the Falklands in 1771, claiming formal possession of the islands for the United Kingdom.

Four years after entering the service, he was present as a subaltern at the Battle of Navarino on 20 October 1827.

Stransham led the Royal Marines during the First Battle of Canton in the First Opium War on 18 March 1841.

[6] He saw active service for over 53 years, retiring with the rank of general on 24 December 1875.