William Vere Reeve King-Fane
Family
A member of the
Educated at St John's College, Cambridge, William Dashwood Fane was a barrister, and served as Secretary to the Mercantile Law Commission (1853–56), and Legal Assistant (1856–67) and Assistant Secretary (1865–67) to the Board of Trade. His own father, William (1789–1839), was a civil servant in Bengal and the younger son of Hon. Henry Fane, himself the younger son of the 8th Earl of Westmorland; Henry had inherited an estate centred on the Lincolnshire village of Fulbeck.[3] After resigning his position at the Board of Trade, William Dashwood Fane went to live at Norwood House, Southwell, and then Melbourne Hall, Derby (neither of which he owned), before purchasing his family's old home, Fulbeck Hall, in 1887; he moved into the house in 1894.[4]
On 16 May 1895, Fane married Helen Beatrice (died 1962), second daughter of Thomas Holdsworth Newman (and granddaughter of Martin Tucker Smith by his daughter Elizabeth Laura), and had issue:[2][5]
- DL (1897–1976), who served as High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1952, and vice-chairman (1957–62) and then chairman (1962–67) of Kesteven County Council.
- Lieutenant Francis Christopher Fane, RN (ret.) (1900–1947), who married Joyce Patricia, daughter of Rev. William Hugh Munely Hancock, vicar of Leadenham, leaving issue, including Julian Francis Fane, DL (born 1938), who served as High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1981.
- Charles William Fane (1904–1976), who married firstly Pauline Margaret, daughter of Rev. Ernest Morell Blackie, Dean of Rochester, and had issue, including Peter William Fane (born 1939), High Sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1983–84; he married secondly Pamela Mary, daughter of Robert Millington Synge, and had issue.
- Elizabeth Christine Fane (1906–1997), who married Colonel Jeffrey Maurice Lambert, son of Colonel Joseph Alexander Lambert, and had issue.
In 1920 he changed his surname by Royal Licence to King-Fane on inheriting the Ashby Hall estate in Ashby de la Launde.[6]
Life
Following schooling at
Fane took an active interest in local government, which intensified after his retirement from the armed forces.
King-Fane resigned from the post of vice-chairman of Kesteven County Council in 1937 owing to ill health, and stepped down from the Council in 1941. Although Fulbeck Hall had been his home for many years, King-Fane and his wife lived at the George Hotel in Grantham after the beginning of World War II. He died at the town's hospital on 5 November 1943.[7]
References
- ^ Mosley, Charles (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th ed., volume 2 (Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage & Gentry), p. 4138
- ^ a b c Crisp, Frederick Arthur (1914), Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, p. 9
- ^ Crisp, Frederick Arthur (1914), Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 18, pp. 1–6; W. D. Fane's details are on p. 6
- ^ "W. D. Fane, Esq.", Grantham Journal, 6 December 1902, p. 4
- ^ Mosley, Charles (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th ed., volume 3 (Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage & Gentry), pp. 4138-4139
- ^ a b c Alumni Cantabrigienses, 1944, p. 457
- ^ a b c d e f "Death of Col. W. King-Fane", Grantham Journal, 12 November 1943, p. 8
- ^ Hart′s Army list, 1903
- ^ "The Army in South Africa - Troops returning home". The Times. No. 36875. London. 17 September 1902. p. 5.
- ^ The London Gazette, 5 November 1907 (issue 28075), p. 7388
- ^ "No. 28469". The London Gazette. 24 February 1911. p. 1470.
- ^ "Kesteven County Council: a new vice-chairman", Grantham Journal, 31 March 1934, p. 8
- ^ "Election of new vice-chairman", Lincolnshire Echo, 5 May 1937, p. 1