Background
Thomas Fane was the second son of Henry Fane of Brympton d"Evercy in Somerset and Anne sister and coheir of John Scrope, children of Thomas Scrope, a Bristol merchant. Anne was a granddaughter of Colonel Adrian Scrope the regicide.
Thomas Fane was the second son of Henry Fane of Brympton d"Evercy in Somerset and Anne sister and coheir of John Scrope, children of Thomas Scrope, a Bristol merchant. Anne was a granddaughter of Colonel Adrian Scrope the regicide.
Thomas Fane inherited John Scrope"s fortune and mansion in Bristol, and from him Colonel Adrian Scrope"s property in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. In 1762 he inherited the title of Earl of Westmoreland from John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland, his father"s second-cousin, who had died without issue. John Fane, 9th Earl of Westmorland (1728–1774)
Henry Fane (1739–1802)
Charles Blair was the great-great grandfather of Eric Blair, who wrote under the pen name George Orwell.
In 1761 Joshua Reynolds painted his full length portrait entitled Reynolds was paid 80 guineas for the work which depicted the powder-wigged subject walking through a wooded landscape wearing rose-coloured velvet attire.
In May 1903 the portrait was sold to Martin Colnaghi for 2,100 guineas.
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Thomas Fane married Elizabeth Swymmer, the daughter of a Bristol merchant and member of the slave trade, William Swymmer.