page_title: Arthur Dalrymple Fanshawe
section_title: Senior command
hierarchical_section_title: Arthur Dalrymple Fanshawe / Senior command
caption_attribution_description: British cruiser HMS Royal Arthur of 1891.
context_page_description: Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Dalrymple Fanshawe, GCB, GCVO was a Royal Navy officer. As a captain he became commanding officer, successively, of the troopships HMS Jumna and HMS Malabar, which were tasked with ferrying troops between the United Kingdom and India. These were difficult commands with regular disputes between the military officers in charge of the troops and the naval officers in command of the ships.
  Fanshawe went on to be second in command of the Channel Squadron, in which capacity he acted as umpire during the Naval Manoeuvres that took place in August 1900 and then became Commander-in-Chief Australia Station, in which role he was involved in concluding the naval agreement between the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Australia under which the Commonwealth Naval Forces evolved to become the Royal Australian Navy. After that he became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich and then Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth.
context_section_description: Promoted to rear admiral on 23 February 1897, Fanshawe became second in command of the Channel Squadron, with his flag in the battleship HMS Magnificent, in June 1899. He acted as umpire during the Naval Manoeuvres that took place in August 1900.
  Promoted to vice admiral on 25 January 1902, it was in early October that year announced that he would be appointed Commander-in-Chief, Australia Station, thus upgrading the commander of this station from rear-admiral to vice-admiral. He took up the position in November 1902, with his flag in the cruiser HMS Royal Arthur. In this capacity he was involved in concluding the naval agreement between the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Australia under which the Commonwealth Naval Forces evolved to become the Royal Australian Navy. For this he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on 9 November 1904 in the King's Birthday Honours.
  Promoted to full admiral on 22 July 1905, Fanshawe became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich in October 1906 and went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth in March 1908. He was awarded the Japanese Order of the Sacred Treasure in 1908 and appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order on 31 July 1909. Promoted to Admiral of the Fleet on 30 April 1910, he was advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on 19 June 1911. 
  Fanshawe was not employed during the First World War and retired completely in April 1917. He lived at Donnington Hall near Ledbury in Herefordshire and died in London on 21 January 1936 aged 88.
caption: The cruiser HMS Royal Arthur, Fanshawe's flagship as Commander-in-Chief of the Australia Station
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