George Fane

Who was George Fane?

Sir George Fane was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1601 and 1640

Fane was the second son of Sir Thomas Fane of Badsell in Kent, by his second wife, Mary Neville daughter of Henry Nevill, 6th Baron Bergavenny and his wife, the former Lady Frances Manners. He was matriculated from Queens' College, Cambridge in 1595 and admitted at Lincoln's Inn on 19 November 1597.Arms of Fane Neville, relating to parentage of George Fane of Burston, younger son of Sir Thomas Fane and Hon. Mary Neville. A crescent is shown as the for a second son. Engraving of the tomb of himself and his wife Elizabeth Spencer in Westminster Abbey

In 1601, Fane was elected Member of Parliament for Dover. He was knighted on 23 July 1603 at the coronation of King James I. In 1604 he was elected MP for Sandwich and in 1614 MP for Dover again. He was elected MP for Kent in 1621. In 1624 he was elected MP for Maidstone and was elected again in 1626 and 1628 and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.

In April 1640 Fane was elected again as MP for Maidstone in the Short Parliament.