Richard Gennys Fanshawe (22 June 1906 – 14 April 1988) was a British horse rider who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was born at Rathmore, Naas, Kildare, third son of Lieutenant-General Edward Arthur Fanshawe (1859–1952), K.C.B., of the Royal Artillery, and Frances Rose, daughter of Sir James Macaulay Higginson, K.C.B., Governor of British Mauritius from 1851 to 1857, formerly Governor of Antigua 1847 to 1850. His middle name, 'Gennys', derived from the marriage on 6 December 1769 of Captain Robert Fanshawe, R.N. to Christiana, daughter of John Gennys, of Whitleigh Hall, Devon, and had been given to members of the Fanshawe family including his grand-uncle Admiral Edward Gennys Fanshawe (1814-1906), Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth.