Henry Hamlyn-Fane
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Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Edward Hamlyn-Fane (5 September 1817-27 December 1868), known as Henry Fane until 1861, was a British soldier and Conservative
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 politician.

Background

Born Henry Fane, he was the eldest son of Reverend Edward Fane, son of Henry Fane, 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...

. His mother was Maria, daughter of Walter Parry Hodges. In 1861 he assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Hamlyn, which was that of his father-in-law (see below).

Military and political career

Hamlyn-Fane was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 4th Light Dragoons. In 1865 he was returned to Parliament for Hampshire South, a seat he held until November 1868.

Family

Hamlyn-Fane married Susan Hester, daughter of Sir James Hamlyn-Williams, 3rd Baronet, in 1850, through which marriage Clovelly court
Clovelly court
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, Clovelly
Clovelly
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, Devon
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, came into the Fane family. They had two sons and four daughters. Hamlyn-Fane died at his country seat, Avon Tyrrell, Hampshire
Hampshire
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, in December 1868, aged 51. His wife only survived him by a few months and died at Clovelly Court in May 1869, aged 45.

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