About Henry Fawcett
Lived 1762 – 1816 (aged 53). Henry Fawcett was a British official and politician.
Henry Fawcett (26 May 1762 – 15 February 1816) of Scaleby Castle, was an English merchant and politician.
Early life Fawcett was born into the prominent Fawcett family on 26 May 1762 at Broadfield House, in Dent, Cumbria. He was the eldest son of James Fawcett of Broadfield, and Agnes ( Stephenson) Fawcett. His younger brother, Rowland Fawcett, was married to Frances Mercy Farish.
His maternal grandparents were Dorothy ( Dennison) Stephenson and Henry Stephenson of Docker Garth and Lupton High, Cumberland, and his uncle was prominent banker Rowland Stephenson of Scaleby Castle, MP for Carlisle from 1787 to 1790.
He launched the 1798 ship, Scaleby Castle. the only daughter of Anne Martha ( Hutchins) Bellasis (a daughter of John Hutchins) and Maj.-Gen. John Bellasis, East India Company Artillery. Together, they were the parents of five sons and three daughters, he married Amelia Smith. After her death, he married Eliza Arnold. he married Louisa Charlotte Hill.
Through his daughter Agnes, he was a grandfather of Charles Fawcett Neville-Rolfe.
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East India Company official and politician
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Henry Fawcett was born on 26 May 1762.
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Henry Fawcett died on 15 February 1816.
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Henry Fawcett was an official and politician.
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