Humphrey Fleming Senhouse

Humphrey Fleming Senhouse
Born	1781 Barbados
Died	13 June 1841 (aged 60) Hong Kong
Buried	Old Protestant Cemetery, Macao
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	Royal Navy
Years of service	1797–1841
Rank	Captain
Wars	Napoleonic Wars War of 1812 First Anglo-Chinese War
Awards	Knight Commander of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order (1832) Knight Bachelor (1834) Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath (1841)

Captain Sir Humphrey Fleming Senhouse,KCH, CB (baptised 6 June 1781 – 13 June 1841), was a British Royal Navy officer. He served in the Napoleonic Wars, War of 1812, and First Anglo-Chinese War. In China, he commanded HMS Blenheim, in which he died in Hong Kong from fever contracted during the British capture of Canton.

Senhouse was born in Barbados and baptised there on 6 June 1781. He was the third son of William Senhouse (1741–1800) and his wife Elizabeth. His father was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and surveyor-general of Barbados and the Leeward Islands. His mother was daughter of Samson Wood, the speaker of the Barbados Assembly. His grandfather, Humphrey Senhouse of Netherhall, Cumberland, married Mary, daughter and co-heiress of Sir George Fleming, bishop of Carlisle.

Senhouse joined the navy in January 1797 on board HMS Prince of Wales, the flagship of Rear-Admiral Henry Harvey in the West Indies Station. In November 1797, he moved to the brig Requin, in which he arrived in England for the first time in 1799. From March 1800 to April 1802, he served in HMS Fisgard under Captains Thomas Byam Martin and Michael Seymour.

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