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 Official Baronage, iii. 645, with portrait; Cazalet's Royal Academy of Music (1854), pp. 9–24, with portrait; James D. Brown's Dict. of Musicians (1886), p. 613.] 

FANE, JULIAN HENRY CHARLES (1827–1870), diplomatist and poet, fifth son of, eleventh earl of Westmorland [q. v.], born at Florence 2 or 10 Oct. 1827, was educated at Thames Ditton 1838–1841, when he went to Harrow for a short time. As a fellow-commoner he matriculated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1847, and soon became a distinguished member of the society known as the Cambridge Apostles. In 1850 he obtained the chancellor's medal for English verse by his poem on ‘The Death of Adelaide, Queen Dowager,’ and in the following year he took his M.A. degree. At the age of seventeen he entered the diplomatic service as an unpaid attaché to his father's mission at Berlin. He was afterwards an attaché at Vienna from 1851 to 1853, and there commenced his study of German poetry. To the first number of the ‘Saturday Review,’ 3 Nov. 1855, p. 13, he contributed an interesting article entitled ‘Heinrich Heine, Poet and Humorist.’ He set many of Heine's verses to music, and sang many to the music of Hoven (i.e. Vesque Puttlingen), and he played Austrian national airs upon the zither. He possessed a brilliant wit, a keen sense of humour, and an unrivalled gracefulness of manner and expression. At the congress of Paris in 1856 he was attached to Lord Clarendon's special mission, and it was on this occasion that he made the acquaintance of his greatest friend Edward Lytton, now the second earl of Lytton. After the peace he was appointed secretary of legation at St. Petersburg, and remained in Russia until 1858, writing and sending to his government able reports on the trade of that country. He was transferred to Vienna 1 April 1858, and to Paris in 1865 as first secretary acting chargé d'affaires. He remained at Paris until 1867, when he returned to London, and was protocolist to the conferences held there on the affairs of Luxembourg from 7 to 13 May. He returned to Paris to take charge of the embassy between the departure of Lord Cowley and the arrival of Lord Lyons, but ill-health forced him to resign his connection with the diplomatic service 7 June 1868. In 1852 he printed a volume of ‘Poems,’ which soon reached a second edition, and two years afterwards he brought out ‘Poems by Heinrich Heine, translated by Julian Fane.’ In 1861, under the pseudonym of ‘Neville Temple,’ he published, in conjunction with his friend Edward Lytton, who adopted the name of ‘Edward Trevor,’ a poem entitled ‘Tannhäuser, or the Battle of the Bards.’ On 29 Sept. 1866 he married Lady Adine Eliza Anne Cowper, third daughter of George, sixth earl Cowper. She was born at 1 Great Stanhope Street, London, 17 March 1843, and died at Wimbledon 20 Oct. 1868. Fane never recovered the shock of the premature death of his wife, and suffered from an affection of his throat, which not only prevented him from swallowing any liquid, but was accompanied by a gradual extinction of his voice for almost a year before his death. He died at 29 Portman Square, London, 19 April 1870.



FANE, MILDMAY, second (d. 1666), eldest son of Francis Fane, first earl [see under ], by Mary, heir of Sir Anthony Mildmay of Apthorpe, Northamptonshire, was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He represented Peterborough in 1620–1, Kent in 1625, and Peterborough again in 1626–8, was created a knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles I (1 Feb. 1625–6), sided with the king on the outbreak of the civil war, and was arrested as a delinquent and lodged in the Tower in 1642. He was released on 1 April 1643 on giving his parole to keep his house in Bartholomew Close, and in the following August was permitted horse exercise within five miles of London. He had been fined 2,000l., and his estates had been sequestered. The sequestration, however, was discharged on his taking the covenant (14 Feb. 1643–4), and at the same time he was set at liberty. In 1648 he printed for private circulation a volume of verse entitled ‘Otia Sacra,’ and another volume by him entitled ‘Fugitive Poetry,’ consisting chiefly of epigrams, acrostics, and anagrams in English and Latin, suggested by the events of the interregnum, is among the manuscripts preserved at Apthorpe. In 1652 he headed a petition presented by the Northamptonshire landowners to the council of trade urging that steps should be taken to counteract the efforts of the cloth workers to monopolise the wool trade. His submission to the parliament was overlooked at the Restoration, and he was appointed, jointly with the Earl of Bridgewater, lord-lieutenant of Northamptonshire on 11 July 1660. In 1662 a warrant was issued for the payment to him of 50l. out of the secret service money. He died on 12 Feb. 1665–6. He married twice. His first wife was