Arthur Upton Fanshawe
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Sir Arthur Upton Fanshawe, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|sep=,|size=100%|KCIE|CSI|CVO}} (1848-1931) was a British civil servant in India during the British Raj. He served primarily in the Indian Post Office.
Life and career
Fanshawe was born in Essex on 18 December 1848,{{cite book|author=Sir Bernard Burke|title=A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3RVXAAAAYAAJ|year=1925|publisher=Burke Pub. Co.|page=605}} the son of Rev. John Faithfull Fanshawe and elder brother of Herbert Charles Fanshawe, and was educated at Repton School. He passed the Civil Service entrance exam in 1869.{{cite book|title=The Cyclopedia of India: biographical, historical, administrative, commercial|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7dTkAAAAMAAJ|year=1907|publisher=The Cyclopedia Publishing Co.|page=156}} He took a post with the Bengal Civil Service in 1871, and was appointed to the position of postmaster for Bombay in 1882.{{cite book|author=Paul C. Winther|title=Anglo-European Science and the Rhetoric of Empire: Malaria, Opium, and British Rule in India, 1756-1895|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CGfoZeWoopIC&pg=PA136|year=2005|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=978-0-7391-1274-8|page=136}} After a stint serving in the Finance and Commerce Department, in 1889 he became the Governor of the Indian Post Office,{{cite book|title=Dictionary of Indian Biography|publisher=Ardent Media|pages=143|id=GGKEY:BDL52T227UN}} a position he held until 1906.
In 1893, Queen Victoria announced the creation of a Royal Commission on Opium to regulate the British opium trade in the Far East. Fanshawe, a supporter of the opium trade, was nominated to the Commission by the Indian Government. The Commission's report found that opium use in Asia was not a major problem in AsiaBrook, T and Wakabayashi, B; Opium Regimes: China, Britain and Japan 1839-1952, University of California Press 2000, {{ISBN|978-0-520-22236-6}} p39 and its conclusions effectively removed the opium question from the British public agenda for another 15 years.{{cite book|last=Baumler|first=Alan|title=The Chinese and Opium under the Republic: Worse Than Floods and Wild Beasts|year=2007|publisher=State University of New York|isbn=978-0-7914-6953-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dfAKoolkV-wC|page=65}}
Fanshawe was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE) in the 1903 Durbar Honours.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Durbar Honours |date=1 January 1903 |page=8 |issue=36966}}{{London Gazette |issue=27511|date=1 January 1903 |page=3 |supp=y}}
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Category:Companions of the Order of the Star of India
Category:Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order
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