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:

• Charles Fane de Salis (1860–1942), Bishop of Taunton from 1911 to 1930
• Sir Charles George Fane (1837–1909), British Admiral
• Sir Edmund Douglas Veitch Fane (1837–1900), diplomat and minister plenipotentiary to Denmark
• Sir Francis Fane (Royalist) of Fulbeck (c. 1611–1681), supported the Royalist cause During the English Civil War
• Sir Francis Fane (dramatist) of Fulbeck (d. 1691), Restoration play write
• Francis Fane 1700-1759 (1700–1759), Tory MP and attorney general to the Prince of Wales
• Francis Fane (soldier) (1824–1893), British Colonel who raised the Peshawar Light Horse
• Francis Fane of Brympton (d. 1757), Member of Parliament
• Francis Fane of Spettisbury (1752–1813), Member of Parliament
• Francis William Fane (1778–1844), Rear-Admiral in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars
• Frederick Fane (1875–1960), Irish born cricketer, who captained England on five occasions
• Sir George Fane (MP for Kent) (d. 1640), English politician
• George Fane (c.1616–1663) Civil War royalist officer and member of parliament
• Harriet Arbuthnot née Fane (1793–1834), was an early 19th-century English diarist, social observer and political hostess on behalf of the Tory party
• Henry Fane (died 1706) (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 (1739–1802) of Fulbeck (1739–1802) Member of Parliament for Lyme Regis 1772–1802
• 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
• 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
• 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 Hamlyn-Fane (1817–1868), known as Henry Fane until 1861, was a British soldier and Conservative politician.
• Lt-Col Henry Sutton Fane (b. 1805), English soldier and politician
• Sir John Fane (captain) captain at the battle of Poitiers 1356 who captured King John II of France
• John Fane (1751–1824) (1751–1824), British Tory politician
• John Fane (1775–1850) (1775–1850), MP and British Tory politician
• John Fane (1804–1875) (1804–1875), Colonel in the British Army and a Conservative politician
• Julian Henry Charles Fane (1827–1870) diplomatist and poet
• Lady Mary Fane (1639–1681) was the daughter of Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland
• Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland (1602–1666), English nobleman, politician, and writer
• Mildmay Fane (1689–1715), English politician
• Mildmay Fane (1794–1868) British General
• Priscilla Fane, Countess of Westmorland (1793–1879), British linguist and artist
• Sir Ralph Fane or Vane of Badsel Manor (d. 1552), English nobleman was executed at Tower Hill in 1552
• Richard Ponsonby-Fane (1878–1937), a British academic, author, and Japanologist
• Robert George Cecil Fane (1796–1864) British Judge
• 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
• Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane (1824-1915), of Brymton, diplomat, cortier and cricketer
• Sybil Fane, Countess of Westmorland (1871–1910), was a socialite and member of the British aristocracy
• Sir Thomas Fane (d 1589) (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 Thomas Fane (Kent) (1626–1692), Member of Parliament for Maidstone
• Thomas Fane (MP) (1760–1807), Member of Parliament for Lyme Regis
• Vere Fane (MP) Tory MP for Petersfield and Lyme Regis
• Sir Vere Bonamy Fane (1863–1924), General in the British Indian Army
• Vere Fane Benett-Stanford (1840–1894), Conservative MP Shaftesbury
• Violet Fane (1843–1905), a British novelist, poet and essayist of Victorian era
• Walter Fane (1828–1885), a British general who raised Fane's Horse at Cawnpore in 1860
• 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

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

• Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland
• Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland
• Charles Fane, 3rd Earl of Westmorland
• Vere Fane, 4th Earl of Westmorland
• Vere Fane, 5th Earl of Westmorland
• Thomas Fane, 6th Earl of Westmorland
• John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland
• Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland
• John Fane, 9th Earl of Westmorland
• John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland
• John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland
• Francis Fane, 12th Earl of Westmorland
• Anthony Mildmay Julian Fane, 13th Earl of Westmorland
• Vere Fane, 14th Earl of Westmorland
• David Fane, 15th Earl of Westmorland
• Anthony David Francis Henry Fane, 16th Earl of Westmorland
• Sarah Fane, Countess 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

1. 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.