Henry Fane, MP for Lyme Regis

Lyme Regis (UK Parliament constituency)

Lyme Regis was a parliamentary borough in Dorset, which elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1832, and then one member from 1832 until 1868, when the borough was abolished.-1295-1629:...

 1772–1802.

The younger son of Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland

Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland

Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland , MP for Lyme Regis and a lord commissioner of trade. Thomas Fane was the second son of Henry Fane of Brympton d'Evercy in Somerset and Anne sister and coheir of John Scrope, children of Thomas Scrope, a Bristol merchant. Anne was a granddaughter of Colonel...

. He was a Clerk to HM Treasury

HM Treasury

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 from 7 December 1757 until 29 August 1763, but was described as "very idle and careless and spending much time in the country".

In January 1772 he became Keeper of the King's Private Roads, Gates and Bridges. Henry Fane followed a long list of Fanes as Members of Parliament for Lyme Regis the family's rotten borough

Rotten borough

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, inherited from John Scrope

John Scrope

John Scrope was a British lawyer and politician.He was the son of Thomas Scrope, a Bristol merchant, the third son and ultimate heir of Colonel Adrian Scrope of Wormsley in Oxfordshire, hung drawn and quartered after the restoration as one of the regicides of Charles I.Scrope was educated at the...

 which at times provided the Fanes with up to two members of parliament at the same time. Between 1753 and 1832 twelve separate members of the family represented Lyme Regis in the Tory interest. The family also represented Constituencies in Somerset, Lincolnshire, Kent, Hampshire, Northampshire and Dorset.

Fane's father gave him Fulbeck

Fulbeck

Fulbeck is a small village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the A607, north from Grantham and north-west from Sleaford. To the north is Leadenham, and to the south is Caythorpe.-Toponymy:...

 Hall in 1783. In 1784 Fane and his wife occupied Fulbeck and enlarged and refurnished it, adding a new north wing.

On 12 January 1778 Fane married Anne (d. 19 January 1838), the daughter of Edward Buckley Batson, a banker. The couple had 14 children:

• Gen. Sir Henry Fane MP (1778–1840)
• Anne Fane (19 January 1780 – March 1831), married Lt-Gen. John Michel and mother of Field Marshal Sir John Michel
• Lt-Col. Charles Fane (14 May 1781 – July 1813) Killed in action Vittoria
• Elizabeth Fane (1782 – 28 January 1802)
• Rev. Edward Fane (7 December 1783 – 28 December 1862), married Maria Hodges and had issue, including Henry Hamlyn-Fane
  Henry Hamlyn-Fane
  Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Edward Hamlyn-Fane , known as Henry Fane until 1861, was a British soldier and Conservative politician.-Background:...
  
   , General Walter Fane
  Walter Fane
  General Walter Fane CB was a British General who served in Central India, on the North West Frontier as well as in China during the Opium Wars. Fane raised a troop of irregular cavalry to fight in China made up of Indian volunteers and they went on to become Fane's Horse, a regiment that remains...
  
   and Colonel Francis Fane
  Francis Fane (soldier)
  Colonel Francis Augustus Fane was an English officer in the British Army who raised the Peshawar Light Horse during the Indian Mutiny. Fane was also a noted traveller, diarist, artist as well as in later years a successful banker.-Early life:...
  
  
• Vere Fane (5 January 1785 – 18 January 1863), MP
• Frances Mary Fane (d. 28 June 1787)
• Lt. Neville Fane, RN (16 January 1788 – 24 November 1807), died of yellow fever
  Yellow fever
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   in Bridgetown
  Bridgetown
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• William Fane (5 April 1789 – 7 March 1839), married Louisa Hay Dashwood and had issue
• Caroline Fane (28 December 1790–1859), married Charles Chaplin
  Charles Chaplin (younger)
  Charles Chaplin was an English Member of Parliament . He represented Stamford from 1809 to 1812 and Lincolnshire from 1818 to 1831.- References:**- External links :...
  
   MP
• George Augustus Fane (16 March 1792 – 1 March 1795)
• General Mildmay Fane (September 1794 – 12 March 1868)
• Harriet Fane
  Harriet Arbuthnot
  Harriet Arbuthnot 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 hero of Waterloo and British Prime Minister, the 1st Duke of Wellington...
  
   (1793–1834), married Charles Arbuthnot
  Charles Arbuthnot
  Charles Arbuthnot was a British diplomat and Tory politician. He was Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire between 1804 and 1807 and held a number of political offices. He was a good friend of the Duke of Wellington...
  
   MP
• Robert George Cecil Fane
  Robert George Cecil Fane
  -Biography:Fane, thirteenth and youngest child of the Hon. Henry Fane and Anne, daughter of Edward Buckley Batson, and brother of General Sir Henry Fane and Harriet Arbuthnot, was born on 8 May 1796, and educated at Charterhouse School from 1808 to 1813...
  
   (1796–1864)

Fane also had a natural child before his marriage:

• Sir Henry Chamberlain, 1st Baronet.