Viscount Vane

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The title Viscount Vane was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1720 for William Vane, who had previously represented County Durham in Parliament and who later sat for Steyning and Kent. He was created Baron Vane, of Dungannon in the County of Tyrone, also in the Peerage of Ireland, at the same time he was given the Viscountcy. The 1st Viscount was the younger son of the 1st Baron Barnard. The titles became extinct on the death of his son, the 2nd Viscount, in 1789.