George Fane
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Colonel George Fane DL, JP (c. 1616 - April 1663) was the fifth but fourth surviving son of Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland by his wife, Mary (d.1640), daughter and heir of Sir Anthony Mildmay of Apethorpe, co. Northampton.
Know as Colonel the Hon. George Fane (ffane or Vane), he was educated at Eton College (1637-32) and Emmanuel College, Cambridge (matric 1632) before travelling abroad (Italy), 1635-38.
Fane was Member of Parliament (MP) for Callington, in Cornwall 1640-43, a seat controlled by the Rolle family of Heanton Satchville, and then for Wallingford in Berkshire 1661-1663. He was one of the most active Members in the opening sessions of the Cavalier Parliament, serving on 84 committees.
- He was a Captain of an Irish foot regiment by 1642,
- a royalist lt. colonel by 1643,
- and colonel of a foot regiment 1644-49.
- He fought as a colonel at Marston Moor.
- He was a Justice of the peace (JP) for Berks (1660-death),
- a Berkshire Deputy Lieutenant (1660-death),
- a Commissioner for assessment, Warwickshire (August 1660-1661), and one for Berkshire (1661-1663).
Fane 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 Despenser, (later the third Earl of Westmorland and 10th Baron le Despencer).
He married, by 1650, 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 on 25 April 1663, 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.
[edit] References
- R. de Salis, Quadrennial di Fano Saliceorum, volume one, London, 2003
- Basil Duke Henning, The History of Parliament, The House of Commons 1660-1690, H.P.T., Secker & Warburg, London, 1983.
- (other printed (GEC), manuscript & family knowledge
