Edmund Fane

Sir Edmund Douglas Veitch Fane KCMG (1837–1900) was an English diplomat.

He was the eldest son of Arthur Fane (d. 1872) of Boyton, Wiltshire, prebendary of Salisbury, by Lucy, daughter of J. Benett of Peyt House, Wiltshire. He matriculated at Merton College, Oxford on 28 May 1855, but did not graduate, and, having entered the diplomatic service, was appointed in 1858 attaché at Teheran. In 1863 he was transferred to Turin, and from Turin in 1866 to St. Petersburg as second secretary.

In varied years 1867 to 1878, Fane had stays of brief duration at Washington, Florence, Munich, Brussels, Vienna, and Berne. He was secretary of legation at Copenhagen 1880–1, secretary of embassy at Madrid 1882–5, and at Constantinople 1886–93, and minister at Belgrade from 1893 until his death on 20 March 1900. He negotiated the treaty of commerce with the Kingdom of Serbia of 10 July 1893.

In 1897 Fane received the Jubilee Medal, and in 1899 was created K.C.M.G.. He was lord of the manor of Boyton, Wiltshire, and a deputy lieutenant and justice of the peace for the county.

Fane married, in 1875, Constantia Eleanor, daughter of General R. Blucher Wood. Their younger daughter Etheldred Constantia (1879–1964) married Horace Rumbold.

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