A friend of Robert Herrick, he supported the Royalist party at the outbreak of the English Civil War, but, following a brief period of imprisonment by Parliament, he retired to his estate at Apethorpe in Northamptonshire.
A friend of Robert Herrick, he supported the Royalist party at the outbreak of the English Civil War (King Charles I had stood as godfather to Fane's eldest son in 1635). Following a brief period of imprisonment by Parliament, however, he retired to his estate at Apethorpe in Northamptonshire.