Francis Fane

Sir Francis Fane of Fulbeck supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War. Fane of Fulbeck, by Cornelius Jonson, (black & white reproduction).

Biography Fane was the third, but second surviving, son of Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland.

Fane was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles I. During the English Civil War he was appointed by the Duke of Newcastle to be governor of Doncaster for the King, and afterwards of Lincoln Castle.

He obtained some reputation as a dramatic writer, having left, besides some poems, three dramatic pieces. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1663 (and expelled in 1682).

Fane was seated at Fulbeck, in Lincolnshire, and at Aston in Yorkshire, where he resided the latter part of his life. Francis, who became a dramatist William, who died unmarried Henry Edward, who married Jane, third daughter of James Stanier, of London, merchant, still living 1679. Edward died in 1679, aged 37, and was buried at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London Mary, married to a man by the surname of Marshall, of Fisherton, Lincolnshire Rachael Elizabeth married Thomas Wodhull, of Mollington in Oxfordshire, Esq. and died 2 May 1678 Catherine Grace, wife of William Grove, of Shropshire, Esq. Jane