Francis Fane (5 December 1752 – 10 November 1813) of

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, near Blandford, Dorset, was a British Member of Parliament.

Life

Francis Fane was born on 5 December 1752, the third son of

Henry Fane of Wormsley Henry Fane (16 October 1703 – 31 May 1777), of Wormsley near Watlington, Oxfordshire, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1757 to 1777. Early life Fane was the third son of Henry Fane (1669–1726) of Brympton and An ...

and his third wife Charlotte, daughter of Richard Luther of Miles, near Ongar in Essex. He was educated at

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Corpus Christi College (full name: "The College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary", often shortened to "Corpus"), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. From the late 14th century through to the early 19th century ...

, graduating in 1768. He was Member of Parliament for the constituency of

Lyme Regis Lyme Regis is a town in west Dorset, England, west of Dorchester and east of Exeter. Sometimes dubbed the "Pearl of Dorset", it lies by the English Channel at the Dorset–Devon border. It has noted fossils in cliffs and beaches on the Herita ...

from 11 June 1777 until 1780 and for Dorchester in the Parliaments of 1790, 1796, 1802, 1806.

Family

Fane married Anne Cooke, who succeeded to her father's estates in Somerset and Dorset in 1777. They had no children.

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* * 1752 births 1813 deaths Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge British MPs 1774–1780 British MPs 1790–1796 British MPs 1796–1800

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