FANE, Sir George (1581-1640), of Dover and Burston, Hunton, Kent.

Family and Education

b. Mar. 1581, 2nd s. of Sir Thomas Fane (d. 1589) of Badsell, Tudeley, Kent, and 2nd w. Mary, da. of Henry, 6th Baron Bergavenny; bro. of Sir Francis†.VCH Northants. Fams. 95-6. educ. Maidstone g.s.; Queens’ Camb. c.1595; L. Inn, 19 Nov. 1597.Recs. Maidstone, 89; Al. Cant.; LI Admiss. i. 125. m. (1) 3 Sept. 1607, Elizabeth (bur. 19 Nov. 1618), da. of Robert Spencer†, 1st Baron Spencer of Wormleighton, s.p.; (2) 1620, Anne (d. 5 Mar. 1664), da. of Sir Oliver Boteler of Teston, Kent, 4s. (1 d.v.p.) 4da. (1 d.v.p.).VCH Northants. Fams. 95-6. Kntd. 23 July 1603;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 120. suc. uncle (Sir) Thomas Fane†.VCH Northants. Fams. 95-6. d. 26 June 1640.J. Thorpe, Registrum Roffense (1679), 874.

Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Dover 1602, 1614; Maidstone 1625.Add. 29625, f. 38; Add. 28036, f. 157v; Recs. Maidstone, 85.

Local: commr. sewers, River Rother, Kent 1602, 1604;C181/1, ff. 28v, 95v. Walland Marsh, Kent and Suss. 1604, 1611, 1617, 1623, 1625, 1632;C181/1, f. 90v; C181/2, ff. 147v, 300; C181/3, ff. 94, 188v; C181/4, f. 106v. Denge Marsh, Kent 1604, 1614, 1624, 1625, 1636;C181/1, f. 92; C181/2, f. 209; C181/3, ff. 134v, 185; C181/5, f. 40v. Ticehurst and River Rother, Kent and Suss. 1609, 1611, 1616, 1617, 1618, 1622, 1625, 1629, 1630, 1639;C181/2, ff. 87v, 328v; C181/3, ff. 59v, 172v; C181/4, ff. 18, 37v; C181/5, f. 144. Gravesend Bridge to Penshurst, Kent 1610, 1622, 1626, 1628, 1639;C181/2, f. 106; C181/3, ff. 42, 254v; C181/5, f. 129v. Kent 1613;C181/2, f. 187v. Wittersham Level, Kent and Suss. 1614, 1625, 1629, 31 Mar. 1640;C181/2, f. 219v; C181/3, f. 165v; C181/4, f. 32; C181/5, f. 167. Suss. 1627.C181/3, f. 209v. J.p. Kent 1605–d.Cal. Assize Recs. Kent Indictments Jas. I ed. Cockburn, 20. Asst. Dover harbour board 1606.Jones, Annals of Dover, 100. Commr. piracy, Cinque Ports 1609, 1613, 1616, 1625, 1629, 1630;C181/2, ff. 85, 246v; C181/3, ff. 175v, 247; C181/4, f. 48. subsidy, Kent 1611, 1621, 1622, 1624, 1626, 1629. 1613 – d.E179/127/569; C212/22/20–1; E115/254/79; E115/157/25; E115/570/7. Collector, aid for Princess Elizabeth, 1612. 1613 – d.E163/16/21. Asst. Rochester Bridge, Kent; sen. warden, 1614, 1635; jnr. warden, 1627.Rochester Bridge Trust mss, E719; Traffic and Politics ed. N. Yates and J.M. Gibson (Woodbridge, 1994), 294. Commr. inquiry, recusants’ lands, Kent 1622.CSP Dom. 1627–8, p. 449 (misdated). Sheriff, 1622–3.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 69. Commr. oyer and terminer, Home circ. 1625–d.;C181/3, ff. 138v, 261; C181/4, ff. 13, 198v; C181/5, ff. 8v, 163. Cinque Ports 1639;C181/5, f. 131v. Forced Loan, Kent 1626 – 27; Rochester 1627.Harl. 6846, f. 37; C193/12/2, ff. 26v, 86. Pres. Cobham Coll. by 1628.A.A. Arnold, ‘Cobham Hall’, Arch. Cant. xxvii. 87. Commr. swans, England except south-western cos. c.1629;C181/3, f. 269. survey of highways, Kent 1631;C181/4, f. 88. knighthood fines, Kent, Canterbury and Cinque Ports 1631;E178/5368, f. 17. charitable uses, Kent 1632;C192/1, unfol. oyer and terminer for piracy, Cinque Ports 1639.C181/5, f. 131v.

: of Dover and Kent., Burston.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

FANE, Sir George (1581-1640), of Dover and Burston, Hunton, Kent.

Will

17 Dec. 1639, cod. 5 May 1640, pr. 13 July 1640.PROB11/183/568; Cent. Kent Stud. U282/F3-4.

Estates

succeeded to estate at Burston in 1607; lived in St Martin’s Lane, Westminster, c.1635-40;Cent. Kent. Stud. U282/F2. owned lands in Yorkshire, Bloomsbury and Bedford Levels, as well as property in Kent, including Aylesford rectory.Cent. Kent. Stud. U282/C1, unfol.; PROB11/183/568.

Oxford 1644

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