Background
Sir Henry Vane was born on February 18, 1589, in Hadlow, England, Great Britain. He was the eldest son of Henry Vane or Fane of Hadlow, Kent, by his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Roger Twysden of East Peckham, Kent, and Anne Wyatt.
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Henry Vane
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Sir Henry Vane matriculated from Brasenose College, Oxford, on June 15, 1604, was admitted a student of Gray's Inn in 1606.
Career
After serving in five Parliaments, Sir Henry Vane was appointed secretary of state by Charles I in February 1640. Three months later Vane announced to the House of Commons that Charles I would waive collection of the unpopular royal levy known as ship money if Parliament would supply the crown with 12 military subsidies. By refusing to accept fewer than 12 subsidies, Vane created a deadlock that led to the dissolution of the Short Parliament by Charles. Vane may have been trying to block a reconciliation between Charles and Parliament, perhaps because he was secretly working against the King.
In 1641 Vane helped bring about the impeachment and execution of the King’s chief minister, Thomas Wentworth, the earl of Strafford, by testifying that Strafford had proposed using Irish troops to suppress Charles’s Parliamentary opponents. As a result, Charles dismissed Vane from office. He worked for the Parliamentary cause during the Civil War but was not placed on the Council of State in 1650 because of opposition from leading radicals. In 1654 he served in Oliver Cromwell’s first Parliament.
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Sir Henry Vane: His Speech In The House Of Commons, At A Committee For The Bill Against Episcopal-Government (1641)
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Sir Henry Vane: His Speech In The House Of Commons, At A Committee For The Bill Against Episcopal-Government (1641)
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- Father:
- Henry Vane
- Mother:
- Margaret
- Son:
- Sir Henry
- Wife:
- Frances Darcy
- Daughter:
- Frances
- Daughter:
- Anne
- Daughter:
- Margaret
- Daughter:
- Elizabeth
- Son:
- William
- Son:
- George
- Son:
- Charles
- Son:
- Walter
He was a Puritan statesman.
She married Sir Robert Honeywood of Pett, Sussex.
She married Sir Thomas Liddell of Ravensworth, Durham.
She married Sir Thomas Pelham, 2nd Baronet of Halland, Sussex.
She married Sir Francis Vincent of Stoke d'Abernon, Surrey.
He was a soldier in the Dutch service.
He was knighted on November 22, 1640. He was parliamentary High Sheriff of Durham in September 1645, and apparently treasurer of the committee for the county.
On 16 January 1650 the parliament appointed him agent of the Commonwealth at Lisbon, in which capacity he demanded Prince Rupert's expulsion from Portuguese ports, but was obliged to leave and take refuge on board Blake's fleet.
He was a colonel of Regiment of Foot in the English service in 1667, and on 12 August 1668 he was appointed the colonel of the Holland regiment.
