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unusual facts about Charles Fane, 2nd Viscount Fane



Charles Fane, 2nd Viscount Fane

He coincided with the final months of Gian Gastone de' Medici, the last Medici Grand Duke.

He succeeded his father in 1744 to estates in near Tandragee in county Armagh; near Lough Gur in county Limerick; at Basildon House in Berkshire; and near Tiverton in Devon.

He was in Florence in person between 3 October 1734 and spring 1738; when Horace Walpole's later friend Horace Mann, his deputy, replaced him (as the Chargé d'Affairs).


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