Colonel Francis Augustus Fane (1824–1893,) was an English officer in the British Army who raised the Peshawar Light Horse during the Indian Mutiny.
[citation needed] Francis joined the 25th Regiment of Foot where he served in Antigua and Canada and where later he was ADC to his Uncle Major-General Mildmay Fane.
When the Indian mutiny broke out in 1857, Francis Fane raised a troop of cavalry called the Peshawar Light Horse, made up mainly of loyal Hindu sepoys with which he fought a guerrilla campaign against the insurgents.
[citation needed] In 1862 his father died and Francis Fane inherited the Fulbeck Hall estate in Lincolnshire.
They had four children Mildmay, Hester, Rachel, and Nevile and both his sons died on active service in the British army.