William Vane, 3rd Duke of Cleveland

William John Frederick Vane, 3rd Duke of Cleveland (3 April 1792 – 6 September 1864), styled The Hon.

[1] He was Member of Parliament for Winchelsea from 1812 to 1815, for County Durham from 1815 to 1831, for St Ives from 1846 to 1852, and for Ludlow from 1852 to 1857.

[1][2] After inheriting the estate of his maternal grandmother, the Dowager Duchess of Bolton in 1809, he changed his surname to Powlett, under the terms of her will, by Royal Licence in 1813.

On inheriting the dukedom of Cleveland from his childless brother Henry in 1864, he resumed the surname of Vane.

[1] Late in life, he lived at Harewood House, at Cheapside, in Berkshire.