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.
[1] On 14 December 1946, Fane married Dorothy Mary (died 1986), daughter of Alexander Ogilvy Findlay, of Llantarnam in Monmouthshire; they had one daughter: Mary Helen (1947–2000), who married Michael Robin Fry, a graphic designer, and had issue.
[2] He served in World War I and was promoted to lieutenant in September 1919,[1][3] before retiring in January 1923 with that rank.
He was successively vice-chairman (1957–62) and chairman (1962–68) 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.