David Fanshawe [SEP] educated at
. His first ambition was to be an explorer, but when he attended St George's School, Windsor Castle and Stowe School he discovered a love of music. His severe dyslexia, however, prevented him from reading a musical score and becoming a chorister.
At Stowe School he spent much of his spare time learning to play the piano, and when he was 17 he was discovered by the mother of a school friend, a French baroness who tutored him in the piano even after he left the school in 1959.
Shoreham Trustee Company.
Personal life.
Fanshawe was educated at Winchester College in Winchester, Hampshire before joining the Royal Navy in 1970. In 1999, he was made a Freeman of the City of London. He currently lives near Chichester with his wife. His brother was the composer, the late David Fanshawe.
Personal life Politics.
Fanshawe was elected Chairman of the Chichester Conservative Association in March 2013.