Fane (surname)

For a article on two notable ennobled families from Kent, see Fane family.

Fane is a surname.^{[nb 1]}

Notable people with the surname include:

Sir John Fane (captain) captain at the battle of Poitiers 1356 who captured King John II of France.
Sir Ralph Fane of Badsel Manor, Tudely Kent executed at Tower Hill 1552
Sir Thomas Fane (d 1589) MP, convicted of treason and involvement in the Wyatt's rebellion pardoned and married to Mary Neville, Baroness le Despencer daughter of Henry Nevill, 6th Baron Bergavenny. Father of Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland
Sir Francis Fane (royalist) of Fulbeck (c. 1611–1681?) supported the Royalist cause During the English Civil War
George Fane (c.1616-1663) Civil War royalist officer and member of parliament
Sir Thomas Fane (Kent) (1626–1692), Member of Parliament for Maidstone
Sir George Fane (MP for Kent) died 1640
Lady Mary Fane (1639–1681) was the daughter of Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland
Sir Francis Fane (dramatist) of Fulbeck (d. 1689?) Restoration play write
Sir Henry Fane (c.1650-1706), Whig Member of Parliament for Reading in 1689, 1690 and 1695 (1689–1698). Irish Privy Councillor from 1690 until his death.
Henry Fane of Brympton (1669–1726), Bristol Privateer a great-grandson of Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland and father of Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland
Francis Fane 1700-1759 Tory MP and attorney general to the Prince of Wales
Francis Fane of Brympton (d. 1757) Member of Parliament
Mildmay Fane Member of Parliament for Kent
Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland
Henry Fane of Wormsley (1703–1777), one of the chief clerks of the board of treasury, one of the chief clerks to the Privy Council, and a Member of Parliament
Henry Fane (politician) of Fulbeck (1739–1802) Member of Parliament for Lyme Regis 1772–1802.
John Fane (1751–1824) was a British Tory politician
Francis Fane of Spettisbury (1752–1813) Member of Parliament
Thomas Fane (MP) (1760–1807), Member of Parliament for Lyme Regis
John Fane (1775–1850) MP and British Tory politician
Sir Henry Fane (British Army officer)(1778–1840) of Fulbeck commanded brigades during several battles during the Peninsular War, and served both as a member of Parliament and Commander-in-Chief of India
Vere Fane (MP) Tory MP for Petersfield and Lyme Regis
Francis William Fane (1778–1844), Rear-Admiral in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars
Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey (1785–1867), was an English noblewoman, the daughter of John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland and Sarah Anne Child. Inherited a share in a bank.
Priscilla Fane, Countess of Westmorland Priscilla Anne Fane (née Wellesley-Pole), Countess of Westmorland (1793 – 18 February 1879), styled Lady Burghersh between 1811 and 1841, was a British linguist and artist.
Harriet Arbuthnot née Fane (1793–1834), was an early 19th-century English diarist, social observer and political hostess on behalf of the Tory party. During the 1820s she was the "closest woman friend" of the 1st Duke of Wellington
Mildmay Fane (1794–1868) British General
Robert George Cecil Fane (1796–1864) British Judge
John Fane (1804–1875), Colonel in the British Army and a Conservative politician.
Lt-Col Henry Sutton Fane (born 1805), MP for Lyme Regis 1826
Henry Hamlyn-Fane (1817–1868), known as Henry Fane until 1861, was a British soldier and Conservative politician.
Francis Fane (soldier) British Colonel who raised the Peshawar Light Horse.
Julian Henry Charles Fane (1827–1870) diplomatist and poet.
Sir Edmund Douglas Veitch Fane (1837–1900) diplomat and minister plenipotentiary to Denmark
Walter Fane, a British general who raised Fane's Horse at Cawnpore in 1860
Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane (1824-1915), of Brymton, diplomat, cortier and cricketer
Sir Charles George Fane (1837-1909), British Admiral
Violet Fane, (1843–1905), a British novelist, poet and essayist of Victorian era.
Vere Fane Benett-Stanford Conservative MP Shaftesbury
Charles Fane de Salis (1860–1942), Bishop of Taunton from 1911 to 1930
Sir Vere Bonamy Fane General in the British Indian Army
William Vere Reeve King-Fane of Fulbeck (1868–1943) OBE was a member of the Fane family, an English landowner, soldier and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire
Sybil Fane, Countess of Westmorland (née St.Clair-Erskine, born 20 August 1871, died 21 July 1910) was a socialite and member of the British aristocracy
Frederick Fane (1875–1960), Irish born cricketer, who captained England on five occasions. He also played for Essex, Oxford University and London County.
Richard Ponsonby-Fane (1878–1937), a British academic, author, and Japanologist.

disambiguation pages

Sir Francis Fane of Fulbeck disambiguation page
Henry Fane disambiguation page
John Fane disambiguation page
Thomas Fane disambiguation page
Vere Fane disambiguation page

English Viscount and Earls of Westmorland

Irish viscount

Viscount Fane (of Basildon in Berkshire; Loughgur in Limerick; Clare in Armagh, and parts of Devon)
Charles Fane, 1st Viscount Fane (1676–1744)
Charles Fane, 2nd Viscount Fane (after 1708–1766)

Notes

↑ Before the 18th century it was not unusual for the name Fane also to be spelt Vane—See for example Sir Ralph Fane of Badsel Manor, executed at Tower Hill 1552— and so it is not unusual for different modern sources to use different spellings for the same person prior to the 18th century.

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