Captain Guy Dalrymple Fanshawe (30 March 1882 – 19 June 1962)[1] was a Royal Navy officer who also served as Unionist Party (Scotland) MP for Stirling and Clackmannan Western from 1924 to 1929.
Guy Fanshawe was MP for West Stirlingshire from October 29th 1924 to May 30th 1929. He made his maiden speech on 6th March 1925 on the subject of Industrial Peace. He was laterally PPS to the Secretary of State for Dominions and Colonies. In the 1929 election he was defeated by Johnston who was returned with a majority of 3590, albeit with a larger electorate.
According to Peter Joynson, Fanshawe, having been defeated in the Stirling seat, decided to seek and nurse a seat in Norfolk. In May 1930 he left Dalveagh to reside at Bixley Manor in Norwich having been adopted the Unionist candidate for East Norfolk.
Fanshawe never became a Unionist candidate in Norfolk which were generally safe Liberal seats. He was put forward as a Conservative candidate for East Norfolk in 1930 but did not contest the subsequent election “in the interest of national unity”.
In the late 1930s Fanshawe was selected as the National Conservative candidate for the Frome Division in Somerset. Around the same time, he asked to be considered for the Wells seat. With war intervening the situation changed and in early 1941 he was called back to London to assist the war effort.