Anthony Royle, Baron Fanshawe of Richmond

Anthony Henry Fanshawe Royle, Baron Fanshawe of Richmond, (27 March 1927 – 28 December 2001), was a British Conservative Party politician and businessman.

Early life A son of Sir Lancelot Royle, a wealthy businessman, he was educated at Harrow and RMA Sandhurst. He joined the Life Guards and subsequently the Special Air Service (SAS). He contracted polio on his way to Korea and was invalided back to the UK, where he spent a year in an iron lung.

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 Collins. He was invited to become Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party by Margaret Thatcher to reform the way the party recruited candidates. He was also responsible for the party's International office.

In 1974 his father passed on his boardroom seats at British Match Corporation, Brooke Bond Liebig and Wilkinson Sword. In 1980, he did not stand for parliament again. He was a director of Westland Helicopters during the 1985 Westland affair, supporting Michael Heseltine's pro-Europe position rather than Margaret Thatcher.

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

Personal life He married former Vogue model Shirley Worthington in 1957 and had two daughters,