Captain Henry William Newman Fane, OBE, JP, DL (6 February 1897 – 23 May 1976) was an English local politician who served as Chairman of Kesteven County Council and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire.
A member of the Fane family, Henry William Newman Fane was born on 6 February 1897, the eldest son of Colonel William Vere Reeve Fane (later King-Fane) (1868–1943), JP, DL, of Fulbeck Hall in Lincolnshire, and his wife, Helen Beatrice (died 1962), daughter of Thomas Houldsworth Newman.[1]
On 14 December 1946, Fane married Dorothy Mary (died 1986), daughter of Alexander Ogilvy Findlay, of Llantarmam in Monmouthshire; they had one daughter: Mary Helen (1947–2000), who married Michael Robin Fry, a graphic designer, and had issue.[1]
Following schooling at Charterhouse and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Fane joined the British Army,[1] being commissioned into the Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery in the Royal Regiment of Artillery as a second lieutenant on 22 April 1915. He served in World War I and was promoted to lieutenant in September 1919, before retiring in January 1923 with that rank. In 1937, he was appointed a justice of the peace and elected onto Kesteven County Council; in 1951, he became a deputy lieutenant,[1] and the following year was appointed High Sheriff of Lincolnshire and was elected by his fellow County Councillors to be an alderman. He was successively vice-chairman (1957–62) and chairman (1962–67) of Kesteven County Council, before chairing the Lincolnshire Police Authority in 1968.[1] He was a long-term chairman of Sleaford Magistrates and a prominent member of the Divisional Conservative Association.[2] Described by the Lincolnshire Echo as a "leading figure in Lincolnshire public and political life for many years",[2] Fane was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1974. He died on 23 May 1976, aged 79.[3]