John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland (24 March 1685 – 26 August 1762) was an English nobleman, styled The Honourable John Fane from 1691 to 1736.

John Fane was the son of Vere Fane, 4th Earl of Westmorland

Vere Fane, 4th Earl of Westmorland

Vere Fane, 4th Earl of Westmorland KB , known as Sir Vere Fane from 1661 to 1691, was a British peer and Member of Parliament for Peterborough and Kent.He was Lord Lieutenant of Kent...

 and his wife Rachel Bence. He was admitted at Lincoln's Inn

Lincoln's Inn

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 in 1703, and entered as a fellow commoner at Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Emmanuel College, Cambridge

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 in 1703/4. He was MP for Hythe

Hythe (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1708 to 1711, and MP for Kent

Kent (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1715 to 1722.

Fane served in the British Army

British Army

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, reaching the rank of colonel

Colonel

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 in the 1st Troop, Horse Guards

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. He was created 1st Baron Catherlough of Catherlough in Ireland

Ireland

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 on 4 October 1733 and succeeded his elder brother as 7th Earl of Westmorland

Earl of Westmorland

Earl of Westmorland is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of England. The title was first created in 1397 for Ralph Neville. It was forfeited in 1571 by Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland for leading the Rising of the North. It was revived in 1624 in favour of Sir Francis...

 in 1736. He was Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Buckingham

Buckingham (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1727 to 1734. He is also notable for being the patron of Colen Campbell

Colen Campbell

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's Palladian Mereworth Castle

Mereworth Castle

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When the 7th Earl, died without issue, in 1762, his Irish barony became extinct, the barony of Le Despencer, being a barony in fee, devolved upon his nephew Sir Francis Dashwood, bart.; and the earldom of Westmorland went to the male heir, Thomas Fane of Bristol

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...

, merchant, son of Henry Fane, (d. 1726,) attorney at law, grandson of Sir Francis Fane

Francis Fane (dramatist)

Sir Francis Fane, of Fulbeck, in the county of Lincoln, K.B. was a writer of stage plays and poems and a courtier in the Restoration court of Charles II of England.-Biography:...

, K.B. and great grandson of Sir Francis Fane, of Fulbeck, co. Lincoln, K.B. the third son of Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland

Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland

Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland, KB head of the Fane family, of Mereworth in Kent, and then of Apethorpe in Northamptonshire, was first a Member of Parliament and then an English peer...

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