Background
Henry Fane was the grandson of Francis Fane, a Restoration dramatist, and son of Henry Fane (1669–1726) of Brympton and Anne, sister and coheir of John Scrope of Wormsley.
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Career
Henry Fane, was one of the chief clerks of the Board of Treasury from 1742 until July 1764, and one of the chief clerks to the Privy Council from 1756 until 1764, and a commissioner for the duties on salt. On 17 July 1735, Henry Fane married Charlotte Rowe, only daughter of Nicholas Rowe, Esq. the Poet Laureate. She died in 1739, at twenty-three, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
They had a daughter, Charlotte, who married Sir William Saint Quintin of Harpham in Yorkshire, 15 May 1758.
She died on 17 April 1762, and is buried at Harpham. Fane married for the second time on 20 May 1742.
She was the daughter of Richard Luther, of Miles (Myles"s) near Ongar in Essex, Esq. She was buried at Lewknor.
Henry, died 4 January 1759, aged eight years, and is buried at Lewknor;
Richard, died 28 March 1759, buried at Lewknor.
Thomas Fane (1700-1771), of Bristol, was an attorney, and clerk to the Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol, and then Member of Parliament for Lyme Regis, 19 January 1753 - 26 August 1762.
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11th Parliament of Great Britain. 12th Parliament of Great Britain. 13th Parliament of Great Britain.
14th Parliament of Great Britain]
Watlington, Oxfordshire, was one of the chief clerks of the Board of Treasury, one of the chief clerks to the Privy Council, and a Member of Parliament.
John (1751–1824), a member of parliament for Oxfordshire;
Francis (1752–1813), a member of parliament for Dorchester.
