Robert Fane

Robert George Cecil Fane (8 May 1796– 4 October 1864) was an English judge. Biography Fane, fourteenth and youngest child of the Hon. Henry Fane and Anne, daughter of Edward Buckley Batson, and brother of General Sir Henry Fane and Harriet Arbuthnot, was born on 8 May 1796, and educated at Charterhouse School from 1808 to 1813. He matriculated from Balliol College, Oxford, on 22 May 1813, and was afterwards a demy and fellow (1824–35) of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he proceeded B.A. in 1817 and M.A. in 1819. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn on 1 June 1821, and soon enjoyed a considerable practice as an equity barrister. In 1823 Lord Eldon appointed him one of the five commissioners of the "Thirteenth List", and on 2 December 1831 he was nominated by Lord Brougham one of the six commissioners who were to hold office under the new act establishing the Court of Bankruptcy. In later life his judicial bearing was marked by an eccentricity of manner, but although his decisions were frequently the subject of comment, very few of his judgments were reversed on appeal. As a member of the Law Amendment Society he was a constant attendant at the weekly meetings in Lancaster Place.