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Captain Guy D. Fanshawe, R.N.

Captain Guy Fanshawe, a member of the Committee of Management for thirty-seven years, died on the 19th June, 1962, at the age of eighty.

A son of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Fanshawe, Captain Fanshawe himself had a distinguished naval career and was later Member of Parliament for West Stirlingshire from 1924 to 1929. He joined theCommittee of Management of the Institution in 1925 and was elected a vice-president in 1947.

For many years he was chairman both of the boat and construction committee and of the depot sub-committee.

No member of the Committee of Management was ever more assiduous in his attendance at meetings, and throughout his period of service on the committee his enthusiasm for the ser- vice and his interest in every aspect of it were boundless..