Frederick Vane (26 June 1732 – 28 April 1801) was a British politician, the second son of

Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, PC (c. 1705 – 6 March 1758), known as Lord Barnard between 1753 and 1754, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1726 to 1753 when he succeeded to a peerage as Baron Barnard. Lif ...

. He sat on the family interest for

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from 1761 to 1774, and took an active part in debates over the

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in 1773. Vane was the second son of

, and his wife Lady Grace FitzRoy. He was educated at

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from 1740 to 1746, and matriculated at

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in 1750. On 15 June 1758, he married Henrietta Meredith, the sister of

Sir William Meredith, 3rd Baronet Sir William Meredith, 3rd Baronet (c. 1725 – 2 January 1790), was a British landowner who sat in the House of Commons from 1754 to 1780. A Rockingham Whig, he served as a Lord of the Admiralty from 1765 to 1766. Early life Meredith was the so ...

, by whom he had one daughter. He was returned as

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for

at the

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on the family interest, where he replaced his younger brother

Raby Vane Raby Vane (2 January 1736 – 23 October 1769) was a Royal Navy officer and Member of Parliament, a younger son of Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington. Vane was born on 2 January 1736, the third son of Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington and his w ...

Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington (1726 – 8 September 1792) was a British peer. Life He was the son of the 1st Earl of Darlington and educated at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating with a MA on 3 July 1749. He joined the Army as an En ...

had chosen to place his interest behind Frederick and Robert Shafto, although the latter was suspected of Tory sympathies; Sir Thomas Clavering, a well-connected Whig, also stood, but unsuccessfully, with 1589 votes for Shafto, 1553 for Vane, and 1382 for Clavering. In Parliament, Vane was generally a quiet administration supporter with some independent tendencies. He was favorable to the peace preliminaries in December 1762, but seconded the motion of his brother-in-law, Sir William Meredith, against the use of

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s on

John Wilkes John Wilkes (17 October 1725 – 26 December 1797) was an English radical journalist and politician, as well as a magistrate, essayist and soldier. He was first elected a Member of Parliament in 1757. In the Middlesex election dispute, he fo ...

and his followers in February 1764. Charles Jenkinson considered him a dissenting friend of the

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. While considered by Rockingham a supporter of his ministry, Vane continued to support government when the

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came in. He was returned without a contest for Durham in the

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, together with Clavering, after Shafto stood down. Though generally a supporter of the Grafton and North ministries, he periodically acted in opposition, as in 1769 and 1773, where he supported Wilkes on the issue of the Middlesex election. He rarely spoke in the House, but felt compelled in February 1771 to speak out against Meredith's unsuccessful but violent attempt to repeal a clause in the Nullum Tempus Act in the face of Administration. Vane's most active engagement with public business came in 1773, when he spoke in the House on the actions of the

and was appointed to the committee to investigate them. He came to the conclusion that charges of misconduct against the company were well-founded and spoke several times during the debates leading to the

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. He stood down at the

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and took no further part in politics. Vane married Grace Lysaght, niece of

John Lysaght, 1st Baron Lisle John Lysaght, 1st Baron Lisle of Mountnorth in the County of Cork in the Peerage of Ireland (1702 – 15 July 1781) was an Irish peer and politician. The eldest son of Nicholas Lysaght and Grace, daughter of Colonel Thomas Holmes of Kilmallock, ...

in 1797, and died on 28 April 1801.

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