Sarah Anne Fane, Countess of Westmorland (néeChild; 28 August 1764 – 9 November 1793) was an English noblewoman.
Sarah Anne Fane, Countess of Westmorland, in 1786 by Ozias HumphreySarah Sophia Child Villiers, Countess of Jersey (née Fane) (Alfred Edward Chalon)
She was the only child of Robert Child, the owner of Osterley Park and principal shareholder in the banking firm Child & Co, and Sarah Child. She married John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland, on 20 May 1782 at Gretna Green after they eloped together. Her parents were dissatisfied with the match: Sarah Anne being an only child, her father wanted her to marry a commoner who would take the Child name; but Sarah Anne told her mother, "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."[1] Her father would leave no capital to her or any eldest child,[2] leaving his house and fortune to the (any) second child of Sarah Anne, instead of the likely Westmorland primogeniture heir-to-be.[1] A second marriage ceremony took place at Apethorpe, Northamptonshire on 7 June 1782.[3] She died of a fever at Phoenix Park, Dublin on 9 November, 1793.[4]
Sarah Anne and the earl's surviving children were:
Lady Augusta Fane (1786–1871), m. 1. John Parker, Lord Boringdon (later 1st Earl of Morley), in 1804, divorced 1809; m. 2 also in 1809 Sir Arthur Paget (1771–1840), son of the 1st Earl of Uxbridge.
^G. E. C. [George Edward Cokayne], Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Volume 8, 1898, p119
^Roland Thorne, "Fane, John, tenth earl of Westmorland (1759–1841)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, January 2008. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
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