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Lady Mary Fane (1639–1681) was the daughter of
Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland (24 January 1602 – 12 February 1666), styled Lord le Despenser between 1624 and 1628, was an English nobleman, politician and writer. Life One of seven sons of Francis Fane by his wife Mary Mildmay, ...
, who succeeded to the title in 1628 and died in 1666, and his second wife, Mary, daughter of
Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury (1565 – 2 May 1635) was an English army officer who served in the Eighty Years' War and the Thirty Years' War. A brother of Francis Vere, he was sent to the Electoral Palatinate by James VI and I in 1620. ...
, and widow of Sir Roger Townshend. Lady Mary married firstly Francis Palmes of Ashwell, Rutland, and was widowed with no children. She married secondly John Cecil, 4th Earl of Exeter (1628–1678), a widower, on 24 January 1670. He had previously been married to Lady Frances Manners (died 1660), and had two children. Mary is buried in
St Martin's Church, Stamford St Martin's Church, Stamford, is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England located in Stamford, Lincolnshire, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. The area of the town south of the River Welland was in Northamptonshire until 1889 and i ...
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1639 births 1681 deaths
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Exeter Exeter ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and the county town of Devon in South West England. It is situated on the River Exe, approximately northeast of Plymouth and southwest of Bristol. In Roman Britain, Exeter w ...
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