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Richard Arthur Fanshawe was born at Salcombe in Devon on 18 February 1906, the son of Captain Arthur Fanshawe RN and Agnes (née Hustler-Tuck). He was educated at Brighton College, where he was in Hampden House from 1920 to 1924. He entered Worcester College, Oxford on 10 October 1925 as an exhibitioner, and achieved 2nd class honours in Modern History in 1929.
During the Second World War, Richard Fanshawe was an ARP (air raid precautions) warden in London. On the night of 10/11 May 1941, the Luftwaffe despatched 505 bombers in the largest attack on London of the entire war. Some 700 acres of the city were damaged or destroyed, 1,436 people were killed and more than 2,000 were injured. At around 12.30am on 11 May a bomb landed on the basement of 22 Elvaston Place, Kensington, and Richard Fanshawe was among the team who responded. The bomb was subsequently ignited by fire, killing nineteen people, including Warden Richard Fanshawe. He was 35 years old.
Richard Fanshawe is commemorated on the war memorials at Brighton College, and at Worcester College, Oxford.