Francis Fane of Brympton

Francis Fane KC (c. 1698 – 28 May 1757) of Brympton d'Evercy, near Yeovil, Somerset, and later Wormsley, Oxfordshire was a Commissioner for Trade and the Plantations, and a British Member of Parliament.

He was educated at King's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1715, after which he attended the Middle Temple and was called to the bar in 1721.

[1] In 1746, being constituted one of the commissioners for the Board of Trade and the Plantations, he was re-elected to the parliament which first sat on business on 12 November 1747, representing Ilchester.

[6] He died unmarried on 28 May 1757, aged fifty-nine, serving as the member for Lyme Regis and was buried at Lewknor in Oxfordshire.

His younger brother and heir, Thomas, inherited the Earldom of Westmorland on the death of the 7th earl in 1762.