Anthony Fane, 13th Earl of Westmorland

Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Mildmay Julian Fane, 13th Earl of Westmorland, CBE, JP (16 August 1859 – 9 June 1922), styled Lord Burghersh between October 1859 and 1891, was a British peer.

Background and education Fane was born at Curzon House, 8 South Audley Street, Mayfair, London, the second and youngest son of Francis Fane, 12th Earl of Westmorland and Lady Adelaide Ida, daughter of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe. He was baptised at Apethorpe, Northampton. He was educated at Eton. On 3 August 1891, he succeeded his father in the earldom. He accompanied the battalion when they were posted to South Africa in April 1902 for the last stages of the Second Boer War. Following the end of the war in June 1902, Lord Westmorland and the other men of the 3rd battalion left Cape Town on the SS Scot in early September, and returned to Northampton after arrival in the United Kingdom later the same month. He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and commanded the battalion from 31 July 1907, including its transition to the Special Reserve in 1908. In 1911 he was appointed an Aide-de-Camp to King George V. He retired from the command on 31 July 1914, but as World War I broke out days later he was 'dug out' of retirement and commanded 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers from 8 December 1915 until the end of the war. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1919. He was also Justice of the Peace for Northamptonshire. Major the Hon. Mountjoy John Charles Wedderburn Fane (8 October 1900 – 9 October 1963), who married Agatha Acland-Hood-Reynardson on 29 April 1926. They had two children, Lt.-Cdr. Antony Charles Reynardson Fane (born 11 October 1927) and Daphne Sybil Fane (25 March 1929 – 23 January 2005). Lady (Violet) Gloria Sybil Fane (11 April 1902 – 9 September 1969)

Due to financial difficulties, he sold the family seat, Apethorpe Hall, in 1904. It had been in his family for 300 years.

After the death of his first wife, Lord Westmorland married Catherine Louise Geale on 22 April 1916.

He died in Hove, Sussex on 9 June 1922, and was buried there on 14 June.

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