A half-length portrait to the right showing Fletcher in a blue coat and waistcoat with gold embroidered buttonholes; his hat is under his left arm. He wears his own hair, unpowdered.
Henry Fletcher entered the service of the East India Company, commanding the ‘Stormont’ and the ‘Earl of Middlesex’ between 1758 and 1766. He then moved into politics in 1768, representing Cumberland and the ‘India interest’ in parliament under the patronage of the Dukes of Norfolk and of Portland. He was elected the Company’s court of directors in 1769, serving almost constantly until his resignation in 1783. He was chairman in 1782–83. In failing health, and with the dwindling influence of his patrons, he withdrew from parliament at the general election of 1806.