Dorothy Fane

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Hon. Dorothy Fane.

The Countess of Sandwich.

(22 March 1716/17 - Barnes 17 July 1797)

Baptised 27 April 1717 at St. Giles in the Fields.

Dorothy was the third surviving daughter of Charles, 1st Viscount Fane (1676-1744) by his wife Mary (1686-1762) daughter of the envoy hon. Alexander Stanhope, FRS. Mary was the sister of soldier-statesman James, 1st Earl Stanhope (1673-1721), and was one of the six original Maids of Honour to Queen Anne, appointed 4th June 1702.

Dorothy married at St. James's 14 March 1740/41, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich.

They separated in 1757 or 1754 and she was granted an apartment in Windsor castle with her sister Elizabeth. She also lived at the Fane's Thames-side New House at Basildon, Berkshire.

She was declared 'De Lunatico Inquirendo' in May 1767.

Her brother Charles, 2nd Viscount Fane, died without issue and his estates in Berkshire, Armagh, and Limerick where inherited by her and her surviving sister Mary, Madame de Salis, Countess de Salis, wife to Jerome, 2nd Count de Salis.

Source: GEC; family knowledge; muniments.