Sir Francis Fletcher-Vane, 5th Baronet
Sir Francis Fletcher-Vane | |
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Born | Dublin, Ireland | 16 October 1861
Died | 10 June 1934 London, England | (aged 72)
Allegiance | ![]() |
Service/ | British Army |
Years of service | 1883-1904, 1914-1916 |
Rank | Major |
Unit | Worcester Militia Scots Guards Submarine Mining, RE |
Commands held | Captain in 26th Middlesex Cyclists |
Battles/wars | Second Boer War Defence at Portobello Barracks in Dublin, Easter Rising |
Relations | Ancestor: Sir Henry Vane the Elder |
Other work | Writer; politician; Grand Scoutmaster, British Boy Scouts; founded Italian Scout Movement and Order of World Scouts |
Sir Francis Patrick Fletcher-Vane, 5th Baronet
Fletcher-Vane was an early aide of
As an army officer, he helped expose the murder of several innocent civilians by an officer under his command during the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.[5]
Early life
Vane was born at 10 Great George's Street,[4] Dublin, in 1861. His parents were Lieutenant Frederick Henry Fletcher-Vane (1807–1894), of the 12th Lancers, son of Sir Frederick Fletcher-Vane, 2nd Baronet, and Rosalind, daughter of John Moore, of Prospect House, County Galway, Ireland.[5][6]
Vane was raised in
Military career
After military college, Vane was assigned to the
Ireland
At the start of World War I, Vane returned to the Army as a recruiting officer with the rank of Major and was sent to Ireland, attached to the Royal Munster Fusiliers.[10]
During the
Vane ordered these incidents to be reported to the garrison high command and to British high command. But his superiors covered up the crimes, and removed him from command. Thereupon Vane went directly to London and met with Secretary of War
Nevertheless, Vane's superior Sir John Maxwell filed an adverse report about Vane, resulting in Vane's dismissal from the army sometime prior to August 1916.[12]
Between periods of military service
Daily News,
Scouting
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By 1909, Vane was the
Vane got the
With the spread of the alternative British Boy Scouts programme throughout the world, Vane informally aligned the various groups as the Legion of World Scouts, the first international organisation, in 1911 then more formally as the Order of World Scouts on 11 November 1911.[14][15] Vane became the Grand Scout Master of the Order of World Scouts.[14]
Vane put his wealth behind the organisations: providing a London headquarters and financed the organisation, even the manufacture of BBS uniforms. This overburdened his finances to the point of having to declare bankruptcy in 1912.[16] Thus the British Boy Scouts lost their headquarters, source of equipment and uniforms and their leader. Vane continued his involvement with the remnant BBS, as he inspected the Troop of the London Commissioner Percy Herbert Pooley in 1915.[13][15]
Vane returned to Italy after World War I to find that the Italian Boy Scouts he founded had been mainly absorbed by the National Scouts Corps (Corpo Nazionale Giovani Esploratori Italiani -
Personal life
He succeeded his cousin Sir Henry Fletcher-Vane as baronet in 1908.
His first wife, Anna Oliphant da Costa Ricci, daughter of the Baron Anselmo da Costa Ricci of Portugal, whom he married in 1888, died in 1922. Vane became a Knight Commander of the
Legacy
In 2016, Fletcher-Vane was commemorated on a postage stamp in Ireland to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising.[19][20]
Further reading
- Francis Fletcher Vane, Agin the governments: memories and adventures of Sir Francis Fletcher Vane (London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., 1929)
References
- ^ "First Meeting, 10th November, 1891. Election of Fellows". Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society. New Series. 13: 731. 1891.
- ^ Obituary in The Times, Sir Francis Vane, 11 June 1934, p.17
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/77196. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ a b c d A man of courage. accessed 25 September 2008
- ^ a b c d e f g Working Class Movement Library: Sir Francis Patrick Fletcher Vane, Bt. Archived 13 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 93rd edition, ed. E. M. Swinhoe, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1933, p. 2379.
- ISBN 9785879387346. Retrieved 29 April 2019 – via Google Books.
- ^ "No. 25134". The London Gazette. 1 August 1882. p. 3583.
- ^ "No. 25441". The London Gazette. 13 February 1885. p. 630.
- ^ "No. 28992". The London Gazette. 1 December 1914. p. 10194.
- ^ a b "Royal Commission on the Arrest and subsequent treatment of Mr. Francis Sheehy Skeffington, Mr. Thomas Dickson, and Mr. Patrick James McIntyre: Report of the Commission", presented to both houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty, London: Darling & Son, 1916 (accessed 29 March 2016).
- ^ a b British House of Commons, Disturbances in Ireland", hearing held on 1 August 1916 (accessed 31 March 2016).
- ^ a b c d e The BBS Story Archived 27 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine The British Boy Scouts and British Girl Scouts Association. accessed 25 September 2008.
- ^ a b c Other Youth Programs Author Victor M. Alexieff. SOSSI Journal. Vol. 37, No. 9, September 1982
- ^ a b c Boy Scout Movement: Internationalism--Order of World Scouts Historic Boys' Uniform website.
- ^ "No. 28656". The London Gazette. 22 October 1912. p. 7837.
- ^ The praise was given in an article published in the Daily Telegraph - Jeal, Tim, Baden-Powell, Hutchinson 1989, page 545
- ^ Information supplied by the Reverend Dr Michael Foster from information held in the British Boy Scouts Archive
- ^ McGreevy, Ronan. "Brothers remembered in stamp to mark centenary of Rising". The Irish Times. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ^ "Stamps and First Day Covers". 20 January 2018. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
External links
- ODNB article by Roger T. Stearn, ‘Vane, Sir Francis Patrick Fletcher, fifth baronet (1861–1934)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, May 2006 [1], accessed 7 April 2008.
- Biography at irishidentity.com