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Anthony Mildmay Julian Fane, 13th Earl of Westmorland


Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Mildmay Julian Fane, 13th Earl of Westmorland CBE, JP (16 August 1859 – 9 June 1922), styled Lord Burghersh between 1860 and 1891, was a British peer.

Fane was born at Curzon House, 8 South Audley Street, Mayfair, London, the second and youngest son of Francis Fane, 12th Earl of Westmorland and Lady Adelaide Ida, daughter of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe. He was baptised at Apethorpe, Northampton. He was educated at Eton. He was fond of cricket, and although not in the Eleven whilst at Eton, he occasionally played for Northamptonshire under his title Lord Burghersh. On 3 August 1891 he succeeded his father in the earldom.

Lord Westmorland became a Major in 1902, whilst serving with the Northamptonshire Regiment. He accompanied the 3rd Battalion of the Regiment to South Africa in April 1902, when they were posted there for the last stages of the Second Boer War. He was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the regiment from 1907 to 1914, and in 1911 he was appointed an Aide-de-Camp to King George V. He fought in the First World War as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Lancashire Fusiliers, and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1919. He was also Justice of the Peace for Northamptonshire.


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