Anthony Royle, Baron Fanshawe of Richmond

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

A son of Sir Lancelot Royle, he was educated at Harrow and RMA Sandhurst. He joined the Life Guards and subsequently the SAS. He contracted polio on his way to Malaya and was invalided back to UK and spent a year in an iron lung.

In the 1950s, Royle became President of the Western Area Young Conservatives. Living in London, he became an insurance broker and unsuccessfully contested St Pancras North in the 1955 UK general election. As the Conservative candidate in the Torrington by-election, 1958, he failed to hold the usually safe seat.

Royle was finally elected (as the Member of Parliament for Richmond-upon-Thames) from 1959, holding the seat until 1983. He was a junior minister for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 1970 to 1974. He was knighted - KCMG in 1974. 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. He was elevated to the House of Lords in 1983 as Baron Fanshawe of Richmond, of South Cerney in the County of Gloucestershire.

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