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- Charles Fane, 1st Viscount Fane PC (January 1676 - 4 Jul 1744), was an English courtier, politician and a landowner in both England and Ireland. Fane or ffane was baptised at Basildon in Berkshire on 30 January 1676, he was the second son but heir of the Right Hon. Sir Henry Fane, of Basildon, KB, (1650-1705/06), by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Southcott of Exeter. His elder brother's death made him eventual heir to the Bourchier estates; the manors of Lough Gur and Glenogra in county Limerick and of Clare, near Tandragee, in county Armagh; to the Fane estate at Basildon in Berkshire; and to the Southcott estate at Calwoodley in Devon. The elder brother Henry Bourchier Fane was Standard Bearer of the Gentleman Pensioners from 10 April 1689 until early 1696 when he was killed in a duel by one Elias Burgess. This no doubt the same Colonel Elizeus Burges, a self confessed drinker and womaniser, who was commissioned (March 17), and proclaimed (November 9), Governor of (the province of) Massachusetts (Bay) but never took up the office and resigned April 1716. He was, however, British Resident in Venice from 1719-1722, and 1727 to his death in 1736. On Nov. 9, 1715 Elizeus Burgess was proclaimed Governor, he having been commissioned on March 17, 1715, but he nevercame over to perform his duties, and resigned the office in April, 1716. Having left Wadham College, Oxford (he had matriculated 3 April 1693, fil. eq. de Balneo natu minor. Taken up for Battels, 21 January 1702/03. )) Fane duely replaced his unfortunate elder brother as Standard Bearer from 20 April 1696, a post he had vacated by 31 March 1712. Meanwhile his younger brother George Fane had become Commander of the Royal ship the Lowestoffe, (a 5th rate, 104.5 x 28-foot ship built at Chatham dockyard in 1697). Appointed Captain in 1709, he died without issue at New York the same year. Fane was appointed Deputy Lieutenant (DL) for Berkshire, 21 September 1715. He was Member of the Irish Parliament (MP) for Killybegs in county Donegal, a seat controlled by the Conygham family, from 1715 to 1719. On 22 April 1718 he was created Baron of Loughguyre, in the county of Limerick, and Viscount Fane, both in the Peerage of Ireland, and number 264 on the roll. He took his seat 21 April 1725, having been appointed to the Irish Privy Council on 5 May 1718. He stood unsuccessfully for Berkshire in the election of 30 August 1727. At the poll Fane (1319 votes) was beaten into third place by Robert Packer (1620 votes), a distant ancestor of the late Kerry Packer, and by Sir John Stonhouse (1558 votes).
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- Charles Fane, 1st Viscount Fane PC (January 1676 - 4 Jul 1744), was an English courtier, politician and a landowner in both England and Ireland. Fane or ffane was baptised at Basildon in Berkshire on 30 January 1676, he was the second son but heir of the Right Hon. Sir Henry Fane, of Basildon, KB, (1650-1705/06), by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Southcott of Exeter.
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