Major Hon. Henry Cecil Vane (19 September 1882 – 9 October 1917) was the son and

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of Henry Vane, 9th Baron Barnard of

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. He was wounded in

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and died of those wounds shortly after, leaving his younger brother

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as heir to the Raby estates.

Education

Vane was born on 19 September 1882 as the first son and heir apparent of Henry Vane, 9th Baron Barnard, at Raby Castle in

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. Following family tradition, he attended

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and went up to Christ Church at the

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where he read for a BA, taking the degree in 1900. On 25 August 1914, he married the Lady Enid Victoria Rachel Fane, daughter of

Anthony Fane, 13th Earl of Westmorland Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Mildmay Julian Fane, 13th Earl of Westmorland, Order of the British Empire, CBE, Justice of the Peace, JP (16 August 1859 – 9 June 1922), styled Lord Burghersh between October 1859 and 1891, was a British peer. Back ...

, and Sybil Fane, Countess of Westmorland.

Career

Upon leaving university he began his

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career in the 4th Battalion

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, in which he held a captain's commission. Three years after his graduation, in 1903, he became aide-de-camp to

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, the two-time

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, who was, like Vane's father, a member of The Royal Alpha Lodge. In his capacity as aide-de-camp, he subsequently acted for James Thompson and Sir Gabriel Stokes. He left this position in 1907. In the service of the Yorkshire Hussars Yeomanry he gained the rank of

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and then

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Pastimes

Vane was a keen huntsman and Master of the Foxhounds for the Zetland Hunt between 1909 up until his premature death, and renowned as a "gallant officer" and gentleman. He was a member of the

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and the Yorkshire Club.

Death

He went into active service during

and was injured in that conflict in October 1917. He died in a hospital in France as a result of those injuries on 9 October 1917. On 31 December 1917 his will was probated by his wife. As he left no issue, his younger brother

inherited the title in December 1918. His wife married again on 1 September 1922 to Major Herbert Broke Turnor, the son of Algernon Turnor, and had two daughters by him in 1924 and 1926. She died 9 September 1969.

References

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