Anthony Royle, Baron Fanshawe of Richmond: Difference between revisions

'''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.

 

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/>

 

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]].

 

He was Chairman of the [[Sedgwick Group]] PLC from 1993 to 1999.

 

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]].