Viscount Fane
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Viscount Fane was a title in the Peerage of Ireland created on 22 April 1718, along with the title Baron of Loughguyre, for Charles Fane. On the death of the 2nd Viscount in 1766, both titles became extinct.
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Charles Fane, or ffane, was son of Sir Henry Fane, KB (1650-1706) by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Southcott of Exeter.
His elder brother's death made him eventual heir to the Bourchier estate, the manors of Lough Gur and Glenogra in county Limerick and of Clare in county Armagh; to the Fane estate at Basildon in Berkshire; and to the Southcott estate at Calwoodley in Devon.
Charles Fane was baptised at Basildon on 30th January 1676. He died on the 4th or 7th and was buried at Basildon on the 16th July 1744.
He matriculated Wadham college, Oxford, 3rd April 1693.
The elder brother Henry Bourchier Fane was Standard Bearer of the Gentleman Pensioners from 10th April 1689 until early 1696 when he was killed in a duel by one Elias Burgess. (Probably the same Colonel Elizeus Burges, a self confessed drinker and womaniser, who was British Resident in Venice from 1719-1722, and 1727 to his death in 1736). Charles Fane duely replaced his dead elder brother as Standard Bearer from 20 April 1696, a post he had vacated by 31st March 1712.
A younger brother George, was Commander of the Royal ship the Lowestoffe, (a 5th rate, 104.5 x 28 foot ship built at Chatham dockyard in 1697). Appointed Captain in 1709, he died without issue at New York the same year.
Charles Fane was appointed Deputy Lieutenant for Berkshire, 21 September 1715.
He was MP for Killybegs in county Donegal from 1715-1718.
Created on 22nd April 1718, Baron of Loughguyre, in the county of Limerick, and Viscount Fane, both in the Peerage of Ireland, 264th on the roll.
Appointed to Irish Privy Council on 5 May 1718.
He stood for Reading in the election of August 1727 but was beaten into third place at the poll by an ancestor of the late Kerry Packer.
He married at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, 12th December 1707, Mary (1686-1762) daughter of the envoy hon. Alexander Stanhope, FRS. A sister of soldier-statesman James, 1st Earl Stanhope (1673-1721), she was also one of the six original Maids of Honour to Queen Anne, appointed 4th June 1702, an office she had vacated by November 1707.
In the 1720s-30s she built the sometime renowned Grotto at the Fane's New House by the Thames at Lower Basildon in the parish of Streatley, Berkshire.
They had seven children. Charles, 2nd Viscount Fane; Mary who married Jerome, 2nd Count de Salis; Elizabeth of Windsor (1711-1760); Dorothy Fane who married John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich; Charlotte of Chelsea (1718-1765); and two who died as children, Lucy (d.1713) and James (d.1714).
