Background
Henry was born in 1669 the fourth son of Francis Fane a noted Restoration dramatist, and Hannah, daughter of John Rushworth of the county of Essex. He was the second son to be named Henry and the second eldest to survive his father.
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Henry Fane
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Career
Henry married Anne, sister and coheir of John Scrope of Wormsley, and granddaughter of the regicide Colonel Adrian Scrope who was hung drawn and quartered after the restoration as one of the regicides of Charles I. They had three sons reaching adulthood:
Francis. He died in 1757;
Thomas. He inherited the title of Earl of Westmorland, on the death of John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland in 1762.
Henry.
Henry and Anne had one daughter, Mary (died October 1773). Henry died 19 December 1726 and was buried at Westbury-on-Trym in Gloucestershire.
Achievements
Membership
He became a commissioner for Trade and the Plantations, and a British Member of Parliament. He became one of the chief clerks of the board of treasury, one of the chief clerks to the Privy Council, and a Member of Parliament.
