, with his wife Mary Mildmay. The title was revived in 1624 in favour of
Sir Francis Fane, whose mother, Mary Neville, was a descendant of a younger son of the first Earl of the 1397 creation. He was created
Baron Burghersh, in the County of Sussex, and
Earl of Westmorland in the Peerage of England 1624, and became
Baron le Despencer on his mother's death in 1626. His son
Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland, at first sided with the king's party in the
English Civil War, but was afterwards reconciled with the parliament.
John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland, served under the
Duke of Marlborough, and was made in 1739 lieutenant-general of the British Armies.
John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland, only son of
John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland, entered the army in 1803, and in 1805 took part in the Hanoverian campaign as aide-de-camp to General Sir
George Don. He was assistant adjutant-general in Sicily and Egypt (1806–1807), served in the
Peninsular War from 1808 to 1813, was British military commissioner to the allied armies under the
Prince of Schwarzenberg, and marched with the allies to Paris in 1814. He was subsequently promoted major general (1825), lieutenant-general (1838) and general (1854), although the latter half of his life was given to the diplomatic service. He was a British resident in Florence from 1814 to 1830, and British ambassador at Berlin from 1841 to 1851, when he was transferred to Vienna. In Berlin, he had mediated in the Schleswig-Holstein question, and in Vienna, he was one of the British plenipotentiaries at the congress of 1855. He retired in 1855, and died at
Apethorpe Hall, Northamptonshire, on 16 October 1859. Himself a musician of considerable reputation and the composer of several operas, he took a keen interest in the cause of music in England, and in 1822 made proposals which led to the foundation in the next year of the
Royal Academy of Music. His wife
Priscilla Anne, daughter of
William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington, was a distinguished artist. His published works include
Memoirs of the Early Campaigns of the Duke of Wellington in Portugal and Spain (1820), and
Memoir of the Operations of the Allied Armies under Prince Schwarzenberg and Marshal Blucher (1822).
Francis Fane, 12th Earl of Westmorland, fourth son of the preceding, was also a distinguished soldier. He entered the army in 1843 and served through the Punjab campaign of 1846; was made aide-de-camp to the governor-general in 1848, and distinguished himself at the
Battle of Gujrat on 21 February 1849. He went to the
Crimean War as aide-de-camp to
Lord Raglan, and was promoted lieutenant colonel in 1855. On his return to England, he became aide-de-camp to the duke of Cambridge, and received the
Crimean Medal. The death of his elder brother in 1851 gave him the style of Lord Burghersh, and after his accession to the earldom in 1859, he retired from the service with the rank of colonel. He died in August 1891 and was succeeded by his son,
Anthony Fane, 13th Earl of Westmorland. ==Earls of Westmorland; First creation (1397)==