Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland (March 1701 – 25 November 1771) was an English politician and peer.

In 1757 he succeeded his unmarried elder brother Francis to their father's Brympton estate and in 1762 inherited the title of Earl of Westmoreland from John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland, his father's childless second-cousin.

The couple had two sons and two daughters, including:[2] In 1761 Joshua Reynolds painted his full-length portrait entitled Mr Fane.

Reynolds was paid 80 guineas for the work, which depicted the powder-wigged subject walking through a wooded landscape wearing rose-coloured velvet attire.

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