Sir Lionel Vane-Fletcher, 1st Baronet

Sir
Lionel Vane-Fletcher
Bt
Born
Lionel Wright Vane

28 June 1723
Rotterdam
Died27 June 1786

Sir Lionel Wright Vane-Fletcher, 1st Baronet (28 June 1723 – 19 July 1786), was the son of a successful merchant in London and Rotterdam, and the owner of a large estate in Cumberland. He was created Baronet, of Hutton in the County of Cumberland, on 27 June 1786.[1] According to the literature of his ancestral seat, Hutton in the Forest, Lionel was a friend of John Howard, the prison reformer, and was made a baronet "through the influence" of his cousin, Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington, who made the request to William Pitt the Younger.[2] The baronetcy was then created by George III.[2]

  1. ^ Debrett's Baronetage of England, Seventh Edition. Edited by William Courthorpe Esq. Published in London for J. G. and F. Rivington, MDCCCXXXV.
  2. ^ a b Article by John Cornforth in Country Life, 18 February 1965.