Henry William Newman Fane

Captain Henry William Newman Fane, OBE, JP, DL (6 February 1897 – 23 May 1976) was an English local politician who served as the Chairman of Kesteven County Council and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire.

Early life and family A member of the Fane family, Henry William Newman Fane was born on 6 February 1897, the eldest son of Colonel William Vere Reeve Fane (later King-Fane) (1868–1943), JP, DL, of Fulbeck Hall in Lincolnshire, and his wife, Helen Beatrice (died 1962), daughter of Thomas Houldsworth Newman.

On 14 December 1946, Fane married Dorothy Mary (died 1986), daughter of Alexander Ogilvy Findlay, of Llantarnam in Monmouthshire; they had one daughter: Mary Helen (1947–2000), who married Michael Robin Fry, a graphic designer, and had children. He served in World War I and was promoted to lieutenant in September 1919, before retiring in January 1923 with that rank. In 1937, he was appointed a justice of the peace and elected onto Kesteven County Council; in 1951, he became a deputy lieutenant, He was later elected as an alderman by his fellow County Councillors. He served as vice-chairman (1957–62) and chairman (1962–68) of Kesteven County Council before chairing the Lincolnshire Police Authority in 1968. Described by the Lincolnshire Echo as a "leading figure in Lincolnshire public and political life for many years", He died on 23 May 1976, aged 79.