Lady Georgiana Fane

Daughter of John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland.

The Irish Times states that ‘Westmoreland Street is named after John Fane, the 10th earl of Westmorland, who was a fierce defender of slavery and in the House of Lords in 1799 denounced attempts to end it’. (Ronan McGreevy, ‘Links to slave trade evident across Ireland’, The Irish Times [online], 12 June 2020, <https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/links-to-slave-trade-evident-across-ireland-1.4276650> accessed 29 July 2021.)

See also: Report of the speech of the Right Honourable the Earl of Westmoreland in the House of Lords : on the occasion of the amendments made by the Commons to the bill for the abolition of the African slave trade being taken into consideration, Monday, 23[r]d March, 1807 (London, 1807).

No known connections with abolition.

Donor: bequeathed in 1875: NG922 (now at Tate, N00922) – Lady Georgiana Fane by Sir Thomas Lawrence (q.v.).

History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
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C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://www.oxforddnb.com/
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J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
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