[16][17][18] Sir Frederick took the Grand Tour in 1787 and extant letters outline conditions in France and Paris before the French Revolution, describing the splendours of Château de Chantilly where they stayed but then outline the problem of travelling in a land ‘infested by crowds of beggars’ in places where horses needed to be changed making travel by carriage difficult, the plight of the poor in contrast to a rich aristocracy being the economic cause of the French Revolution.

[5] On Monday 27 August 1787, The Times reported that:[19][20] The following melancholy accident happened last week at Raby Castle, the seat of the Earl of Darlington: - His Lordship’s eldest son, Viscount Barnard, invited his relations and friends to celebrate his birthday.

The Faculty recommended him to Bath waters, for which he immediately set out, but was taken so ill in going through Knightsbridge, on Sunday last, that he was carried to a lodging house, where he now lies in a very dangerous state.

[1][23] Winchelsea was considered one of the notorious rotten boroughs of England, abolished by the Reform Act 1832 but at the time under the control of the Earls of Darlington.

[25] An advertisement was printed in The Times on 17 April 1793 for the 58th Anniversary of the Cumberland Society to be held on Saturday the 27th at the Crown and Anchor Tavern on The Strand, London.

[41] In 1796, Sir Frederick was elected to Brooks's on the proposal of Charles James Fox and voted with the Whigs on four occasions before the end of Parliament that year.

[1][43] In the General Election of 1818, Sir Frederick failed in his attempt to win the pocket seat of Cockermouth as part of the 'anti-Lowther movement' spearheaded by Henry Brougham.

A son was born on 9 July 1795, Walter Vane, and the ‘intimacy between Sir Frederick and Hannah continued and they lived together at various places in Cumberland and among others at Broughton Hall in the parish of Bridekirk’.

[50] Another kinsman, John Bowerbank, a lieutenant on HMS Bellerephon, accompanied Napoleon to exile on St Helena and he wrote an extant account of his observations during the voyage.

At this point Hannah was pregnant with a third child, Francis Fletcher Vane, who was born on 29 March 1797; the precise date of the birth would be a future bone of contention, resulting in an unedifying lawsuit initiated by Sir Frederick's youngest son in 1872.

[53][54] After Francis's birth, it appears that for the next four years Sir Frederick and Lady Vane resided at Putney, then in Surrey, and ‘at other places in or about London’.

[53] Sir Frederick's first son, Walter Vane, was educated at Eton from 1805 to 1807 and thereafter at Charterhouse between 1808 and 1809 when the school was based at Smithfield, London.

[55][56] Walter was enlisted as a lieutenant in the 1st Foot Guards on 11 September 1811 and served in the Peninsular Wars fought between Napoleon and the allied forces of Britain, Spain and Portugal to gain control of the Iberian Peninsula.

Then the French made an effective sortie from the town to the west towards the sea and caught us napping – result, many hundreds of our men killed and thirteen officers.

[60] He was further commemorated on Memorial Panel VII for Bayonne, Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks, London, although this was destroyed by a flying bomb during the Second World War.

LATE CAPTAIN IN THE 1ST FOOT GUARDS, OR DUKE OF YORK’S REGIMENT WHO WAS MORTALLY WOUNDED AT THE BATTLE OF BAYONNE ON THE 14TH OF APRIL, 1814 AND DIED ON THE 19TH IN THE SAME MONTH, IN THE 19TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.

HIS REMAINS WERE INTERRED WITH MILITARY HONOURS BETWEEN THE CITY OF BAYONNE AND THE VILLAGE OF BOUCAT ALONG WITH MANY OF HIS BROTHER OFFICERS WHO BRAVELY FELL IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY, ON THE SAME MEMORABLE OCCASIONLetters written by Walter to his parents passed to Walter's nephew, Francis:[64][65] I have letters from an uncle of mine, who joined as a young officer of the Guards when our troops attacked San Sebastian in Spain.

[66][67][68] It is not without irony that Walter Vane's kinsman, John Bowerbank, as a lieutenant on HMS Bellerephon, escorted Napoleon to his final exile on St Helena.

[74] In his memoirs, Frederick's son, Francis, describes a scene at Armathwaite when his father, then a boy at Eton:[74] witnessed a battle which must have been one of the last feudal ones in England.

My grandfather owned most of the feudal lands round the lake, but Lord Egremont, who lived at Cockermouth Castle, had some special rights over the water and the foreshore, and desired to build a pier for some purpose or other.

[72] In anticipation of the marriage of his second son, Francis Fletcher-Vane, to Diana Olivia Beauclerk in 1823, the Fletcher-Vane estates were resettled, the trustees being many of the leading Whig politicians and lawyers of the time:[12] In reference to the marriage, Sir Frederick reputedly spoke of the Beauclerk family as a very good one (descending from Charles II), before commenting: "Yes; there is plenty of blood, but no groats".

[83] In 1829 he employed John Peel, the celebrated huntsman, under whom Sir Frederick's pack had one of the longest chases ever recorded, reputedly covering 70 miles.

She was the daughter of Mr. John Bowerbank, of Johnby, Cumberland, and grandmother of the present Sir Henry Ralph Fletcher Vane, Bart.

About 10 o’clock the funeral cortege, comprehending three coaches, in which were Sir Henry Vane and other members of the family, and friends of the deceased, started for Bassenthwaite, where the interment took place.

On their return the mourners dined at the Keswick Hotel.Obituaries of the Dowager Lady Vane also appeared in The Illustrated London News,[93] and The Cheltenham Looker-On.