FANSHAWE, Simon (1716-77), of Fanshawe Gate, Derbys. and Dengie Hall, Essex.

Constituency	Dates
Old Sarum	22 Nov. 1751
Grampound	1761

Family and Education

b. 4 Mar. 1716, 1st s. of Thomas Edward Fanshawe of Great Singleton, Lancs. by Elizabeth, da. of William Snelling of Bromley St. Leonards, by Bow, Mdx. m. 10 Oct. 1753, cos. Althea, da. of his mat. uncle William Snelling of Holborn, Mdx. 1s. 3da. suc. fa. 1726.

Offices Held

Comptroller of the household to George, Prince of Wales 1756 – 60; comptroller of the Green Cloth 1761–7.

Address

Main residences: Fanshawe Gate, Derbys; Dengie Hall, Essex.

biography text

Simon Fanshawe’s father, of an old Derbyshire family, inherited Fanshawe Gate and Dengie in 1716 from the 5th Viscount Fanshawe.1H. C. Fanshawe, Hist. Fanshawe Fam. 264 et seq. As the friend of Lord Lincoln, the nephew of the Pelhams, he was brought in at Old Sarum in 1751 by Pelham, who had ‘a thorough good opinion of him’.2Ld. Waldegrave to Newcastle, 27 Feb. 1756, Add. 32863, ff. 85-86. He died 1 Jan. 1777.

Author

R.S.L.

Volume

Commons 1715-1754

Notes

1. H. C. Fanshawe, Hist. Fanshawe Fam. 264 et seq.
2. Ld. Waldegrave to Newcastle, 27 Feb. 1756, Add. 32863, ff. 85-86.