The Honourable Julian Henry Charles Fane (10 October 1827 – 19 April 1870) was a British diplomat and poet.[1] He was a Cambridge Apostle.
Life
editFane was the fifth and youngest son of John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland, by Lady Priscilla Anne, daughter of William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington.[2] He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the 'Apostles', chancellor's medallist in 1850 and graduated M.A. in 1851.[3] Between 1856 and 1858 he was secretary of legation at St. Petersburg and first secretary and acting chargé d'affaires at Paris from 1865 to 1867.[1]
An extract from a letter written by Edward Granville, the 3rd Earl St Germans, to his son (dated Aug 5, 1850) reads: "Julian Fane has just gained his gold medal at Cambridge from his best English poem. [His Mother] went down to hear him recite it. He must by all accounts be a remarkably clever young man, besides being a wonderful musician."
In 1852 he issued Poems, and a translation of Heine in 1854.[1]
Fane married Lady Adine Eliza Anne, daughter of George Cowper, 6th Earl Cowper, in 1866. They had one son (who did not reach adulthood) and a daughter, Ethel Anne Priscilla, who married William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough. Lady Adine Fane died in October 1868, only a few months after the birth of her son. Fane only survived her by two years and died in 1870.[2]
He died at 29 Portman Square, London, on 19 April 1870.[4]
Notes
edit- ^ a b c Lee 1903, p. 418 (DNB volume xviii p. 178)
- ^ a b thepeerage.com Hon. Julian Henry Charles Fane
- ^ "Fane, the Hon. Julian Henry Charles (FN847JH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
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Lee, Sidney, ed. (1903). "Fane, Julian Henry Charles". Index and Epitome. Dictionary of National Biography. Cambridge University Press. p. 418.
References
edit- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1903). "Fane, Julian Henry Charles". Index and Epitome. Dictionary of National Biography. Cambridge University Press. p. 418.
External links
edit- Works by Julian Fane at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
