Colonel the hon. George Fane

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Colonel the hon. George Fane (1616-April 1663)

A son of Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland, KB, by his wife Mary (d.1640), daughter and heir of Sir Anthony Mildmay, Kt of Apethorpe, co. Northampton.

He was educated at Eton (1637-32) and Emmanuel college, Cambridge (matric 1632). Travelled abroad (Italy), 1635-38.

Captain of an Irish foot regiment 1642, a royalist lt. colonel by 1643, colonel of a foot regiment 1644-49. He fought as a colonel at Marston Moor.

JP Berks (1660-death), Deputy Lieutenant (1660-death).

MP for Callington 1640-43, and Wallingford 1661-1663.

He acquired the mortgage of his Thames-side Berkshire estate at Basildon in 1656 in the names of his sister, Lady Bath (who may have supplied the money) and his nephew, Charles Fane, Lord le Despencer, (later the third Earl of Westmorland).

He married Dorothy (born c19 August 1630) daughter and heir of James Horsey (d.1630) of Honington (Hunningham), Warwickshire. (That property was sold in 1690 and 1695).

Colonel Fane died in the parish of St. Andrew's, Hatton Garden and was buried in St. Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, a church which had close links to his mother's family.

His was survived by his son Sir Henry Fane, KB and his wife who later re-married.