Sir Francis Anthony Charles Peter Hartwell, 6th Baronet, died 27 February, 2023. He was 82.

He served on HMS Worcester from 1955 until 1957, leaving as an RNR Cadet and joining P&O SN Co where he remained until 1971. He left P&O to become Assistant Nautical Inspector and Cargo Superintendent with Overseas Containers (OCL) before in 1972 being appointed Chief Officer with North Sea Operations of Ocean Inchcape.  In 1973 he became involved in Port Management in Nigeria, in PNG and in Saudi Arabia. In 1999 and living in Lagos, he was appointed a Director of International Diamond Drilling, West Africa. 

He was born 1 June, 1940, son of Sir Brodrick William Charles Elwin Hartwell, 5th Baronet (1909-1993), and his wife the former Marie Josephine Mullins (who died 2006); and succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father, 14 December, 1993. The baronetcy was created in 1805 for his ancestor Admiral John Hartwell.

He married 26 Oct, 1968 (div 1989), Barbara Phyllis Rae Green, daughter of Henry Rae Green, of Pymble, Sydney, New South Wales, by whom he had issue, a son, Timothy Peter Michael Charles Hartwell (born 8 July, 1970), who now succeeds to the baronetcy.

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