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English politician

Sir George Fane (1581 – 26 June 1640) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1601 and 1640.

Life

Fane was the second son of Sir Thomas Fane of Badsell in Kent, by his second wife, Mary Neville, who was a daughter of Henry Nevill, 6th Baron Bergavenny and his wife, the former Lady Frances Manners. Fane was matriculated from Queens' College, Cambridge in 1595 and admitted at Lincoln's Inn on 19 November 1597.

Arms of Fane quartering Neville, Barons Bergavenny (Gules, a saltire argent charged with a rose of the field), relating to parentage of George Fane of Burston, younger son of Sir Thomas Fane and Hon. Mary Neville. A crescent is shown as the difference for a second son. Engraving of the tomb of himself and his wife Elizabeth Spencer (d. 1618) in Westminster Abbey

In 1601, Fane was elected Member of Parliament for Dover. He was knighted on 23 July 1603 at the coronation of King James I. In 1604 he was elected MP for Sandwich and in 1614 was elected MP for Dover again. He was elected MP for Kent in 1621. In 1624 he was elected MP for Maidstone and was elected again in 1626 and 1628 and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.

In April 1640 Fane was elected again as MP for Maidstone in the Short Parliament.

Fane died at the age of 59. He was not buried with his first wife.

Personal

Fane married firstly Elizabeth Spencer, daughter of Lord Spencer (of Althorp) and his wife Margaret Willoughby on 3 September 1607 but they had no children. Elizabeth died in 1618 and was buried on 19 November 1618 in St Nicholas’ chapel in Westminster Abbey where there is a large and elaborate monument of alabaster and marble. Fane's second wife was Anne Boteler, by whom he had six children.

References

  1. "Fane, George (FN595G)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p. 38, Nevill, Marquess of Abergavenny
  3. ^ Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
  4. Knights of England
  5. pixeltocode.uk, PixelToCode. "Elizabeth Fane". Westminster Abbey. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  6. Westminster Abbey People Elizabeth Fane
Parliament of England
Preceded byThomas Fane
William Leonard 		Member of Parliament for Dover
1601
With: George Newman 		Succeeded bySir Thomas Waller
George Bing
Preceded byPeter Manwood
Edward Peake 		Member of Parliament for Sandwich
1604–1611
With: Edward Peake
John Griffith 		Succeeded byThomas Smythe
Sir Samuel Peyton, 1st Baronet
Preceded bySir Thomas Waller
George Bing 		Member of Parliament for Dover
1614
With: Robert Brett 		Succeeded bySir Henry Mainwaring
Sir Richard Young
Preceded bySir Peter Manwood
Sir Thomas Walsingham 		Member of Parliament for Kent
1621–1622
With: Viscount Lisle 		Succeeded byNicholas Tufton
Sir Edwin Sandys
Preceded bySir Francis Fane
Sir Francis Barnham 		Member of Parliament for Maidstone
1624
With: Thomas Stanley 		Succeeded byEdward Mapleton
Thomas Stanley
Preceded byEdward Mapleton Member of Parliament for Maidstone
1626–1629
With: Francis Barnham 		Parliament suspended until 1640
VacantParliament suspended since 1629 Member of Parliament for Maidstone
1640
With: Francis Barnham 		Succeeded bySir Francis Barnham
Sir Humfrey Tufton
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