Sir Lionel Wright Vane-Fletcher, 1st Baronet (28 June 1723 – 19 July 1786), was the son of a successful merchant in London and Rotterdam, and the owner of a large estate in Cumberland.

[1] According to the literature of his ancestral seat, Hutton in the Forest, Lionel was a friend of John Howard, the prison reformer, and was made a baronet "through the influence" of his cousin, Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington, who made the request to William Pitt the Younger.

[6] In 1778, Vane-Fletcher experienced a most unfortunate episode:[7] Whereas a Brown Bay Gelding, aged five years, fifteen hands and an half high, with a black mane and nag tail never nicked, a final white strip on his nose, was feloniously taken and rode away from Hutton Hall, in Cumberland, on the 13th of May instant, by WILLIAM JACKSON, servant to Lionel Wright Fletcher Esq.

in Newcastle Bank Bills &c. Whoever will apprehend the said William Jackson, or give such Notice to the above Office, or to any magistrate in this kingdom, as may be the means of him being apprehended, shall receive Fifty Pounds reward from the said Lionel Wright Fletcher, Esq.

[1] According to the literature of his ancestral seat, Hutton in the Forest, he was a friend of John Howard, the prison reformer, and was made a baronet "through the influence" of his cousin, Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington.