Captain Guy Dalrymple Fanshawe (30 March 1882 – 19 June 1962)[1] was a Royal Navy officer who also served as Unionist Party (Scotland) MP for Stirling and Clackmannan Western from 1924 to 1929.
He came from a family with a long tradition of naval service, his grandfather Sir Edward Gennys Fanshawe had also been an Admiral.
[2] After joining the Royal Navy, he was promoted to acting sub-lieutenant on 15 November 1901 and subsequently confirmed in that rank from the same date.
[4] Fanshawe was promoted to the rank of lieutenant on 15 August 1903, served as a commander in World War I, and retired from the Navy in 1923 at his own request.
He was put forward as a Conservative candidate for East Norfolk in 1930 but did not contest the subsequent election “in the interest of national unity”.