Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland
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The Right Honourable The Earl of Westmorland KB |
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| Member of Parliament for Peterborough | |
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In office 1621–1624 Serving with Walter FitzWilliam |
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| Monarch | James I |
| Preceded by | Edward Wymarke Sir William Walter |
| Succeeded by |
Sir Francis Fane Laurence Whitaker |
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In office 1626–1629 Serving with Laurence Whitaker |
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| Monarch | Charles I |
| Preceded by |
Laurence Whitaker Sir Christopher Hatton |
| Succeeded by | None (parliament suspended until 1640) |
| Member of Parliament for Kent | |
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In office 1625–1625 Serving with Sir Albert Moreton |
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| Monarch | Charles I |
| Preceded by |
Sir Nicholas Tufton Sir Edwin Sandys |
| Succeeded by |
Sir Edward Hales Sir Edward Scot |
| Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire | |
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In office 1660–1666 Serving with The Earl of Exeter |
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| Monarch | Charles II |
| Preceded by | None (English Interregnum) |
| Succeeded by |
The Earl of Exeter The Earl of Peterborough |
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| Born |
Mildmay Fane 24 January 1602 Mereworth, Kent, England |
| Died | 12 February 1666 (aged 64) |
| Nationality | English |
| Spouse(s) | Grace Thornhurst (1620–36) Mary Vere (1638–66) |
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With Grace Thornhurst Charles Fane, 3rd Earl of Westmorland With Mary Vere Lady Mary Fane Vere Fane, 4th Earl of Westmorland Rachael Fane Catherine Fane Susan Fane Elizabeth Fane |
| Parents |
Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland Mary Mildmay |
| Alma mater | Emmanuel College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Politician, writer |
| Awards | Knight of the Bath |
Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland KB (24 January 1602 – 12 February 1666), styled Lord le Despenser between 1624 and 1628, was an English nobleman, politician, and writer.
One of seven sons of Francis Fane by his wife Mary, granddaughter of Sir Walter Mildmay, Mildmay Fane was born in Kent and educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge (matriculated 1618). He became MP for Peterborough in 1620 and for Kent in 1625. He succeeded his father as Earl of Westmorland and Lord le Despenser on 23 March 1629 [all dates new style].
A friend of Robert Herrick, he supported the Royalist party at the outbreak of the English Civil War (King Charles I had stood as godfather to Fane's eldest son in 1635). Following a brief period of imprisonment by Parliament, however, he retired to his estate at Apethorpe in Northamptonshire.
One hundred and thirty seven poems by Fane appeared in his self-published collection Otia Sacra in 1648 — the first time a peer of England published his own verse. It was only at the end of the twentieth century that a larger body of Fane's verse was identified: some 500 poems by Fane, composed between 1621 and 1665, were published in 2001. The poems survived in manuscript collections preserved at Fulbeck Hall in Lincolnshire, Houghton Library at Harvard University, and the Westmorland papers preserved at the Northamptonshire Record Office.
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