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Line 1: {{Short description\|British Conservative politician and businessman (1927–2001)}} {{Use dmy dates\|date=April ~~2012~~2022}} {{Infobox officeholder \| honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]] \| name = The Lord Fawnshawe<br>of Richmond \| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals\|country=GBR\|size=100%\|KCMG}} \| office1 = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)\|Member of Parliament]] for [[Richmond (Surrey) (UK Parliament constituency)\|Richmond]] \| term_start1 = 8 October 1959 \| term_end1 = 13 May 1983 \| predecessor1 = [[George Harvie-Watt\|Sir George Harvie-Watt]] \| successor1 = ''Constituency abolished'' \| office2 = [[List of members of the House of Lords\|Member of the House of Lords]]<br>[[Lords Temporal\|Lord Temporal]] \| term_start2 = 22 November 1983 \| term_end2 = 28 December 2001<br>as a [[life peer]] \| predecessor2 = \| successor2 = \| profession = Politician, businessman \| birth_name = Anthony Henry Fanshawe Royle \| birth_date = {{Birth date ~~and age~~\|1927\|3\|27\|df=y}} \| birth_place = \| death_date = {{Death date and age\|2001\|12\|28\|1927\|3\|27\|df=y}} \| image = Sir Anthony Royle.jpg \| caption = Anthony in 1971 }} '''Anthony Henry Fanshawe Royle, Baron Fanshawe of Richmond''', {{post-nominals\|country=GBR\|size=100%\|KCMG}} (27 March 1927 – 28 December 2001), was a [[British people\|British]] [[Conservative Party (UK)\|Conservative Party]] politician and businessman. ==Early life== A son of [[Lancelot Royle\|Sir Lancelot Royle]], a wealthy businessman, he was educated at [[Harrow School\|Harrow]] and [[Royal Military Academy Sandhurst\|RMA Sandhurst]]. He joined the [[Life Guards (United Kingdom)\|Life Guards]] and subsequently the [[Special Air Service]] (SAS). He contracted [[polio]] on his way to [[Korean War\|Korea]] and was invalided back to UK and spent a year in an [[Negative pressure ventilator\|iron lung]].<ref name=guardian-20020103>{{cite news \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/jan/03/guardianobituaries.obituaries \|title=Lord Fanshawe of Richmond \|last=Roth \|first=Andrew \|newspaper=The Guardian \|date=3 January 2002 \|access-date=20 January 2020}}</ref> After recovering, his father provided funding for him to become a member of [[Lloyd's of London]], building upon his start in 1948 with insurance broker [[Sedgwick Group\|Sedgwick Collins]].<ref name=guardian-20020103/> ==Career== In the 1950s, Royle became President of the Western Area [[Young Conservatives (UK)\|Young Conservatives]]. He unsuccessfully contested [[St Pancras North (UK Parliament constituency)\|St Pancras North]] in the [[1955 United Kingdom general election\|1955 general election]]. As the Conservative candidate in the [[1958 Torrington by-election]], he failed to hold the usually [[safe seat]]. At the [[1959 United Kingdom general election\|1959 general election]], Royle was finally elected to the [[British House of Commons\|House of Commons]], as the [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)\|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Richmond (Surrey) (UK Parliament constituency)\|Richmond, Surrey]]. He held the seat until he retired at the [[1983 United Kingdom general election\|1983 general election]]. Royle was strongly [[1973 enlargement of the European Communities\|pro-membership of the European Community]].<ref name=guardian-20020103/> Line 38 ⟶ 43: He was Chairman of the [[Sedgwick Group]] PLC from 1993 to 1999. ==Personal life== He married the former ''[[Vogue (magazine)\|Vogue]]'' model Shirley Worthington in 1957 and had two daughters,<ref name=guardian-20020103/> one of whom, Lucinda, is married to a Conservative hereditary peer, [[Rupert Ponsonby, 7th Baron de Mauley\|Lord de Mauley]]. Line 44 ⟶ 50: \|crest = On a chapeau Sable turned up Erminois a dragon's head erased Or breathing flames of fire Proper. \|supporters = Two dragons Or winged Sable each breathing flames of fire Proper and gorged with a collar checky Argent and Azure rimmed Gules. \|motto = In Duo Confide Et Persevero <ref>{{cite book\|title=Debrett's Peerage \|date=1985}}</ref>}} ==References== Line 58 ⟶ 64: {{s-ttl\|title=[[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)\|Member of Parliament]] for [[Richmond (Surrey) (UK Parliament constituency)\|Richmond]]\|years=[[1959 United Kingdom general election\|1959]]–[[1983 United Kingdom general election\|1983]]}} {{s-non\|reason=Constituency abolished}} ~~{{s-new\|creation}}~~ ~~{{s-ttl\|title=[[List of members of the House of Lords\|Member of the House of Lords]]\|years=1983–1999}}~~ ~~{{s-non\|reason=[[Life peer]]age}}~~ {{s-end}} Line 67 ⟶ 70: {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Fawnshawe Ofof Richmond, Anthony Royle, Baron}} [[Category:Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George]] [[Category:Conservative Party (UK) life peers]] Line 86 ⟶ 89: [[Category:UK MPs 1979–1983\|Royle, Anthony]] [[Category:People from South Cerney]] [[Category:Life peers created by Elizabeth II]] [[Category:Polio survivors]]