Henry Fane (4 May 1739 – 4 June 1802) was a British politician who sat in the

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for 30 years between 1772 and 1802.

Early life

Fane was the younger son of

Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland (March 1701 – 25 November 1771) was an English politician and peer. He was an ancestor of the writer George Orwell. Biography Thomas Fane was the second son of Henry Fane of Brympton d'Evercy in Somerse ...

, and his wife Elizabeth Swymmer, daughter of William Swymmer, a merchant of Bristol. He was a Clerk to

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from 7 December 1757 until 29 August 1763, but was described as "very idle and careless and spending much time in the country". Lincolnshire Archives Committee, . Retrieved 9 May 2007. (53 pages), p. 19

Career

Fane followed a long line of Fanes as Members of Parliament for Lyme Regis the family's

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, inherited from John Scrope which at times provided the Fanes with up to two members of parliament at the same time. Lord Burghersh succeeded in the peerage in 1772 and was elevated to the House of Lords. Fane was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for

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at the resulting by-election on 27 January 1772. In June 1772, he was appointed Keeper of the King's Private Roads, Gates and Bridges. He was returned for Lyme Regis again in

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1780 Events January–March * January 16 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Cape St. Vincent: British Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats a Spanish fleet. * February 19 – The legislature of New York votes to all ...

and

1784 Events January–March * January 6 – Treaty of Constantinople: The Ottoman Empire agrees to Russia's annexation of the Crimea. * January 14 – The Congress of the United States ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Brit ...

. He was again returned in

1790 Events January–March * January 8 – United States President George Washington gives the first State of the Union address, in New York City. * January 11 – The 11 minor states of the Austrian Netherlands, which took pa ...

and

1796 Events January–March * January 16 – The first Dutch (and general) elections are held for the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. (The next Dutch general elections are held in 1888.) * February 1 – The capital of Upper Can ...

. His attendance was less regular in the last two parliaments. He did not stand at the 1802 general election. In all his time in parliament he never made a spoken contribution. On 12 January 1778 Fane married Anne Buckley, the daughter of Edward Buckley Batson, a banker. Fane's father gave him

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Hall in 1783, which he and his wife occupied in 1784, and enlarged and refurnished, adding a new north wing. Fane died on 4 June 1802. Anne died on 19 January 1838.

Children

The couple had 14 children: * Gen. Sir Henry Fane MP (1778–1840) * Anne Fane (19 January 1780 – March 1831), married Lt-Gen. John Michel and mother of Field Marshal Sir

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* Lt-Col. Charles Fane (14 May 1781 – July 1813) Killed in action at Vittoria * Elizabeth Fane (1782 – 28 January 1802) * Rev. Edward Fane (7 December 1783 – 28 December 1862), married Maria Hodges; their children included

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, Major-General Walter Fane and Colonel Francis Fane * Vere Fane (5 January 1785 – 18 January 1863), MP * Frances Mary Fane (d. 28 June 1787) * Lt. Neville Fane, RN (16 January 1788 – 24 November 1807), died of yellow fever in

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* William Fane (5 April 1789 – 7 March 1839), married Louisa Hay Dashwood and had issue * Caroline Fane (28 December 1790 – 1859), married

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MP * George Augustus Fane (16 March 1792 – 1 March 1795) * Harriet Fane (1793–1834), married

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MPBurke's Peerage 1970 * General

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(September 1794 – 12 March 1868) * Robert George Cecil Fane (1796–1864) Fane also had a natural child before his marriage: *

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