Britannia gauge silver waiter dated 1732, with Fane crests and arms of Fane impaling Stanhope. Maker, Paul de Lamerie.

Bourchier Tower at Lough Gur (September 2005).

Charles Fane (ffane), first Viscount Fane, (1675/76-1744), was an English courtier and a landowner in both England and Ireland. Paul de Lamerie (1688 - 1751) was the best-known English silversmith of his generation. ...

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. Basildon is a village and civil parish in Berkshire between Pangbourne and Streatley. ... January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events January 29 - Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia First measurement of the speed of light, by Ole Rømer Bacons Rebellion Russo-Turkish Wars commence. ...

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. Lough Gur reaches up to a maintained lawn at the visitor area at the lake. ... Tandragee (Tóin re Gaoith in Irish) (also spelt Tanderagee) is a large village in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, on the Cusher River. ...

Mary ffane to her husband, reporting the birth of the future Philip, 2nd Earl Stanhope in August 1714.

Letter from Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough to Lady ffane, 1737

The elder brother Henry Bourchier Fane was Standard Bearer of the Gentleman Pensioners from 10th 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 British Resident in Venice from 1719-1722, and 1727 to his death in 1736. Having left Wadham College, Oxford (he had matriculated 3 April 1693) Fane duely replaced his unfortunate elder brother as Standard Bearer from 20 April 1696, a post he had vacated by 31 March 1712. College name Wadham College Named after Nicholas Wadham Established 1610 Sister College Christs College Warden Sir Neil Chalmers JCR President Ben Jasper Undergraduates 460 MCR President David Patrikarakos Graduates 180 Homepage Boatclub Wadham College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, located at the southern...

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 1715-1718. 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. Killybegs is an important fishing port in Ireland, and its harbour is often full with trawlers. ... Lough Gur reaches up to a maintained lawn at the visitor area at the lake. ... The Privy Council of Ireland was an institution of the Kingdom of Ireland until 31 December 1800 and of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1801-1922. ...

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). Berkshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. ... Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer AC (17 December 1937 – 26 December 2005) was an Australian publishing, media and gaming tycoon. ...

Fane married at the Chelsea Hospital, 12th December 1707 (license dated 19 November 1707), Mary (1686-1762) daughter of the envoy hon. Alexander Stanhope, FRS, (the youngest son of the first Earl of Chesterfield), by Catherine, daughter of Arnold Burghill, of Thingehill Parva, Herefordshire. A sister of soldier-statesman James, Earl Stanhope (1673-1721), Mary ffane was also an old friend of the Mistress of the Robes, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough having been one of the six original Maids of Honour to Queen Anne, appointed 4th June 1702, an office she had vacated by November 1707. Figure Court of Royal Hospital Chelsea The Royal Hospital Chelsea is a retirement home and nursing home for British soldiers who are unfit for further duty due to injury or old age, located in the Chelsea region of central London. ... Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield (1584-Sept. ... James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope (c. ... The Mistress of the Robes is the senior lady of the British Royal Household. ... Sarah Churchill Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, née Sarah Jennings (May 29, 1660 - October 18, 1744), rose to be one of the most influential women in British history, largely as a result of her close friendship with Queen Anne. ... Anne (6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714) became Queen of England and Ireland and Queen of Scots on 8 March 1702. ...

Coat of arms on a silver waiter dated 1732, showing arms of Fane impaling Stanhope, for Charles Fane and his wife Mary, possibly a 25th wedding present.

An indenture of settlement dated 19 November 1707 between Charles Fane of Basildon and others, had her marriage portion at 3,000 L (pounds). Robert Walpole, the husband of Mary's first cousin twice-removed Catherine Shorter (c.1682-1737) aka cousin Walpole, was a witness. In the 1720s and 30s she built the sometime renowned Grotto at the Fane's New House by the Thames at Lower Basildon in the parish of Streatley, Berkshire. Fane died 7 July 1744 and was buried at Basildon 16 July 1744, aged 68. His widow died 21 and was buried at Basildon on the 30 August 1762, aged 76. A modern coat of arms is derived from the medi val practice of painting designs onto the shield and outer clothing of knights to enable them to be identified in battle, and later in tournaments. ... The Right Honourable Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, KB, PC (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), usually known as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman who is generally regarded as having been the first Prime Minister of Great Britain. ... // Events The third French and Indian War, known as King Georges War, breaks out at Port Royal, Nova Scotia The First Saudi State founded by Mohammed Ibn Saud Prague occupied by Prussian armies Ongoing events War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) Births January 10 - Thomas Mifflin, fifth President...

They had seven children.

• Charles, 2nd Viscount Fane;
• Mary who married Jerome, 2nd Count de Salis;
• Elizabeth of Windsor (1711-1760);
• Dorothy Fane who married John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich;
• Charlotte of Chelsea (1718-1765);
• and two who died as children, Lucy (d.1713) and James (d.1714).

Jerome, Count De Salis Image:Wappen-Salis. ... John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, 1783, by Sir Thomas Gainsborough For other persons of the same name, see John Montagu. ...

References

• Quadrennial di Fano Saliceorum, volume one, by R. de Salis, London, 2003.
• The Complete Peerage..., by G.E.C. (G. E. Cokayne), Hon. Vicary Gibbs & H.A. Doubleday, vol. V, St. Catherine Press, London, 1926.
• The Grotto House, Toil and Leisure in a modest country house in Berkshire, by Pam Pheasant, ILAM, 2003. ISBN 1 873903 99 5
• other printed ('V.C.H.), and manuscript & family knowledge.
• The House of Commons 1715-1754, by Romney Sedwick, H.M.S.O. for H.P.T., 1970.
• History of the Irish Parliament 1692 - 1800, Commons, Constituencies and statutes, Edith Mary Johnston-Liik, volume IV, Ulster Historical Foundation, 2002.
• John Farrington's print of Basselden from Streatley Hill, 1793