Henry William Newman Fane

A member of the Fane family, Henry William Newman Fane was born on 6 February 1897, the eldest son of Colonel William Vere Reeve Fane (later King-Fane) (1868–1943), JP, DL, of Fulbeck Hall in Lincolnshire, and his wife, Helen Beatrice (died 1962), daughter of Thomas Houldsworth Newman.[1]

On 14 December 1946, Fane married Dorothy Mary (died 1986), daughter of Alexander Ogilvy Findlay, of Llantarmam in Monmouthshire; they had one daughter: Mary Helen (1947–2000), who married Michael Robin Fry, a graphic designer, and had issue.[1]

Following schooling at Charterhouse and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Fane joined the British Army,[1] being commissioned into the Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery in the Royal Regiment of Artillery as a Second Lieutenant on 22 April 1915.[2] He served in World War I and was promoted to Lieutenant in September 1919,[1][3] before retiring in January 1923 with that rank.[4][nb 1] In 1937, he was appointed a Justice of the Peace and elected onto Kesteven County Council; in 1951, he became a Deputy Lieutenant,[1] and the following year was appointed High Sheriff of Lincolnshire[6] and was elected by his fellow County Councillors to be an alderman. He was successively Vice-Chairman (1957–62) and Chairman (1962–67) of Kesteven County Council, before chairing the Lincolnshire Police Authority in 1968.[1] He was a long-term Chairman of Sleaford Magistrates and a prominent member of the Divisional Conservative Association.[7] Described by the Lincolnshire Echo as a "leading figure in Lincolnshire public and political life for many years",[7] Fane was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1974.[8] He died on 23 May 1976, aged 79.[9]