Sir Frederick Fletcher-Vane | |
|---|---|
 Sir Frederick Fletcher-Vane by George Romney | |
| Born | 27 February 1760 |
| Died | 26 February 1832 (aged 71) |
| Relatives | Ancestor: Sir Henry Vane the Elder |
Sir Frederick Fletcher-Vane, 2nd Baronet (27 February 1760 – 26 February 1832), was a British politician, landowner and aristocrat.[1][2] He was MP for the pocket borough of Winchelsea, between 1792 and 1794, the borough of Carlisle, between 1796 and 1802, and again for Winchelsea, between 1806 and 1807.[1] Sir Frederick was the 2nd Baronet of Hutton and a descendant of Sir Henry Vane the Elder.[1][3] In 1788 he served as High Sheriff of Cumberland.[1][4]
In the words of his grandson, Sir Frederick Fletcher Vane ‘was not without the faults and passion of youth’.[5][6] He has also been described as a ‘colourful and difficult character’.[7] Notwithstanding the last remark, expressed after Sir Frederick's death, his character and personality while alive were interesting enough to see him successfully proposed for membership of Brooks's in 1796 by the Whig politician and wit, Charles James Fox, Brooks's being a club where the Prince of Wales was a member.[8] Sir Frederick joined the Whig Club on 11 April 1797 and, in 1798, Coleridge and Wordsworth made use of Sir Frederick's library at Hutton.[1][9][10] Bobus Smith was the inspiration behind the Whig Club and would later be a trustee on the resettlement of the Fletcher-Vane estates ahead of the marriage in 1823 of Sir Frederick's son, Francis, to Diana Beauclerk, the granddaughter of Topham Beauclerk and Lady Diana Beauclerk.[11][12]
Sir Frederick changed his surname to Fletcher Vane in 1790.[1] He was the father of Sir Francis Fletcher-Vane, 3rd Baronet, and the grandfather of both Sir Henry Fletcher-Vane, 4th Baronet, and Sir Francis Fletcher-Vane, 5th Baronet.[13]
- ^ a b c d e f "FLETCHER VANE, Sir Frederick, 2nd Bt. (1760-1832), of Hutton Hall and Armathwaite, Cumb. - History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
- ^ The House of Commons. Boydell & Brewer. 4 May 1986. ISBN 9780436521010. Retrieved 4 May 2019 – via Google Books.
- ^ Lodge, Edmund (1838). The genealogy of the existing British peerage. Saunders and Otley. p. 103. Retrieved 23 April 2019 – via Internet Archive.
frederick fletcher vane henry vane the elder.
- ^ statesmen, English (18 May 2019). "Memoirs of eminent English statesmen, a complete biographical sketch of all public characters of the present age". Retrieved 18 May 2019 – via Google Books.
- ^ Agin The Governments. Memoirs and adventures of Sir Francis Fletcher Vane Bt. Published London by Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., 1929
- ^ Vane, Francis Patrick Fletcher (25 April 2019). Agin the governments. Sampson, Low, Marston. OCLC 221167716.
- ^ Guide book to Hutton in the Forest, no date
- ^ Memorials of Brooks’s, MDCCLXIV to MCM, From The Foundation Of The Club 1764 To The Close Of The Nineteenth Century, Compiled From The Records Of The Club. Published by Ballantyne & Co. Limited, Tavistock Street, London, W.C., MCMVII, p.50
- ^ Christensen, Jerome (25 April 1993). Lord Byron's Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society. JHU Press. p. 146. ISBN 9780801843556. Retrieved 25 April 2019 – via Internet Archive.
lord byron whig club.
- ^ William Wordsworth, A Life, by Stephen Gill. Published by Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989, p.166 ISBN 0198128282
- ^ James, Patricia (5 November 2013). Population Malthus: His Life and Times. Routledge. ISBN 9781136601552. Retrieved 26 April 2019 – via Google Books.
- ^ Copy of The Will of Sir Frederick Fletcher-Vane, Baronet. Dated 25 July 1832
- ^ "The Law Times Reports: Containing All the Cases Argued and Determined in the House of Lords, [etc.[ ; Together with a Selection of Cases of Universal Application Decided in the Superior Courts in Ireland and in Scotland". Law Times Office. 18 April 1873. Retrieved 18 April 2019 – via Google Books.