John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland
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John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland, (1 June 175915 December 1841), styled Lord Burghersh between 1771 and 1774, was a British
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politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, who served in most of the cabinets of the period, primarily as
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Background

Westmorland was the son of
John Fane, 9th Earl of Westmorland John Fane, 9th Earl of Westmorland (5 May 1728 – 25 April 1774), known as Lord Burghersh until 1771, was an English peer and Member of Parliament. He was the eldest son of Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland of Wormsley Park, Buckinghamshi ...
, and Augusta, daughter of Lord Montague Bertie. He succeeded in the earldom on the death of his father in 1774.thepeerage.com John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland
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Political career

In 1789 Westmorland was appointed Joint Postmaster General by
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and sworn of the
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. Already the same year he was appointed
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by Pitt, a post he held until 1794. On 18 February 1793, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Northamptonshire. From 1795 to 1798 he was Master of the Horse under Pitt. The latter year Pitt made him
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, a position he would hold under five prime Ministers (Pitt,
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, Pitt again,
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) for the next 35 years, except between 1806 and 1807 when
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was in office. Westmorland raised a Northamptonshire volunteer cavalry regiment in 1797, and was appointed its colonel on 20 April 1797. He was later
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between 1828 and 1841. He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1793.


Family

Lord Westmorland married
Sarah Anne Child Sarah Anne Fane, Countess of Westmorland ( Child; 28 August 1764 – 9 November 1793) was an English noblewoman. She was the only child of Robert Child, the owner of Osterley Park and principal shareholder in the banking firm Child & Co, ...
(28 August 1764 – 9 November 1793), the only daughter and heiress of wealthy banker, Robert Child, against her father's wishes, at
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on 20 May 1782. Child consequently cut his daughter and her sons and their descendants out of his will, and made his daughter's daughters his heirs to prevent the Fanes from benefitting from this elopement. Their eldest daughter, Lady Sarah Sophia Fane (1785–1867), having thus been made testamentary heiress of her maternal grandfather, married
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, her husband assuming the additional surname of Child. The Earl and Countess of Westmorland had one son and four daughters: * John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland (3 February 1784 – 16 October 1859),''The Register of Births and Baptisms in the Parish of St James within the Liberty of Westminster. 1761-1786''. 9 March 1784. who succeeded his father. * Lady Sarah Sophia Fane (4 March 1785 – 26 January 1867) who married in 1804 George Child Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey and became heiress to the Child fortune. *Lady Augusta Fane (1786–1871), who married firstly in 1804 (divorced 1809) Lord Boringdon, later Earl of Morley (by whom she was the mother of Henry Villiers Parker), and in 1809 Arthur Paget (1771–1840), a younger brother of
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. * Lady Maria Fane (1787–1834) who in 1805 married Viscount Duncannon, later 4th
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; their sixth son
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inherited Brympton d'Evercy from his half-aunt Lady Georgiana. *Lady Charlotte Fane (1793–1822), died unmarried. The Countess of Westmorland died relatively young in 1793, aged only 29, from undisclosed causes. Lord Westmorland married secondly
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, daughter of
Richard Huck-Saunders Richard Huck-Saunders (1720–1785) was an English physician, for most of his life known as Richard Huck. Early life He was born in Westmoreland in 1720 to parents were named Huck, and educated at the grammar school of Croughland in Cumberland. ...
, in 1800. After some years of marriage, they later separated and she lived at Brympton d'Evercy. By his second wife, he had three sons and two daughters, of whom only the eldest child Lady Georgiana Fane outlived both parents and inherited the Brympton estate. *Lady (Cicely Jane) Georgina Fane (25 January 1801 – 1875), died unmarried, leaving Brympton d'Evercy to her nephew
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*Hon. Charles Saunders John Fane (1802–1810) *Hon. Col.
Henry Sutton Fane Hon. Henry Sutton Fane (13 January 1804 – May 1857) was an English politician in the 19th century. He was a Tory Member of Parliament for Lyme Regis Lyme Regis is a town in west Dorset, England, west of Dorchester and east of Exeter. So ...
(1804–1857), died unmarried. *Hon. Montagu Augustus Villiers Fane (1805–1857), died unmarried. *Lady Evelina Fane (1807–1808) Lord Westmorland died in December 1841, aged 82, and was succeeded in the earldom by his only son from his first marriage, John. The Countess of Westmorland died in March 1857.


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