His mother was Charlotte, daughter of Richard Luther, of Miles near Ongar in Essex.
[2] Fane was a Tory independent who supported the government Ministers when they did things he perceived to be in the national interest, but was opposed to government patronage grants and pensions to its own supporters, and he never sought or obtained, a place or pension for himself or his family.
He managed his estates prudently, and did not spend money on vices or foreign travel and except when called to London by his Parliamentary duties, stayed his own country-seat amongst his tenantry.
He was upright, and inflexibly impartial when exercising his magisterial duties at the Assizes and the Sessions.
[1] Fane married Lady Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Parker, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield, in 1773.