Background
Fane was the fifth and youngest son of John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland, by Lady Priscilla Anne, daughter of William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington.
Fane was the fifth and youngest son of John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland, by Lady Priscilla Anne, daughter of William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington.
He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the "Apostles", chancellor"s medallist in 1850 and graduated Master of Arts
He was a Cambridge Apostle. In 1851. Between 1856 and 1858 he was secretary of legation at Saint St. Petersburg and first secretary and acting chargé d"affaires at Paris from 1865 to 1867. In 1852 he issued Poems, and a translation of Heine in 1854.
Fane married Lady Adine Eliza Anne, daughter of George Cowper, 6th Earl Cowper, in 1866.
Fane only survived her by two years and died in 1870. He died at 29 Portman Square, London, on 19 April 1870.
