Title: Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland
Content:  Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland (March 1701 – 25 November 1771) was a British MP for Lyme Regis and a lord commissioner of trade. He was an ancestor of the writer George Orwell.
Title: Thomas Fane, 6th Earl of Westmorland
Content:  Thomas Fane, 6th Earl of Westmorland (3 October 1681 – 4 June 1736), styled The Honourable Thomas Fane from 1691 to 1699, was a British peer and member of the House of Lords. He was the third son (second surviving son) of Vere Fane, 4th Earl of Westmorland and his wife Rachel Bence; as well as the younger brother of Vere Fane, and the older brother of John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland. As his older brother Vere died without issue in 1699, Thomas Fane inherited the Earldom of Westmorland, as well as his brother's further titles Baron Burghersh and Lord le Despencer. Fane held many offices, including that of Deputy Warden of 
Title: Fane (surname)
Content: Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland (1580–1629) ; Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland (1602–1666) ; Charles Fane, 3rd Earl of Westmorland (1635–1691) ; Vere Fane, 4th Earl of Westmorland (1645–1693) ; Vere Fane, 5th Earl of Westmorland (1678–1698) ; Thomas Fane, 6th Earl of Westmorland (1681–1736) ; John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland (1685–1762) ; Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland (1701–1771) ; John Fane, 9th Earl of Westmorland (1728–1774) ; John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland (1759–1841) ; John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland (1784–1859) ; Francis Fane, 12th Earl of Westmorland (1825–1891) ; Anthony Mildmay Julian Fane, 13th Earl of Westmorland ; Vere Fane, 14th Earl of Westmorland (1893–1948) ; David Fane, 15th Earl of Westmorland (1924–1993) ; Anthony David Francis Henry Fane, 16th Earl of Westmorland (born 1951) ; Sarah Fane, Countess of Westmorland (1764–1793) 
Title: Earl of Westmorland
Content: Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland (1580–1629) ; Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland (1602–1666) ; Charles Fane, 3rd Earl of Westmorland (1635–1691) ; Vere Fane, 4th Earl of Westmorland (1645–1693) ; John Fane (1676–1678) ; Vere Fane, 5th Earl of Westmorland (1678–1699) ; Thomas Fane, 6th Earl of Westmorland (1683–1736) ; John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland (1685–1762) ; Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland (1701–1771) ; John Fane, 9th Earl of Westmorland (1728–1774) ; John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland (1759–1841) ; John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland (1784–1859) ; John Arthur Fane (1816–1816) ; George Augustus Frederick John 
Title: Thomas Fane, 6th Earl of Westmorland
Content:  Cinque Ports between 1705 and 1708, First Lord of Trade between 1719 and 1735 and Lord-Lieutenant of Northamptonshire in 1735. Furthermore, he was Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Queen Anne's husband, Prince George of Denmark, on 25 April 1704, and Lord of the Bedchamber to King George I in 1715. In 1717, he was invested as a Privy Counsellor. Fane married Catherine Stringer, daughter of Thomas Stringer in 1707, and they were married until she died on 4 February 1730. Fane himself died on 4 June 1736 without any issue, and was succeeded as 7th Earl of Westmorland, 7th Baron Burhersh and 10th Lord le Despencer by his younger brother, general John Fane.
Title: Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland
Content: 1) Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland (24 January 1602 – 12 February 1666), a poet and Member of Parliament. ; 2) Thomas Fane, died in infancy ; 3) Sir Francis Fane (c. 1611–1681?) of Fulbeck, third but second surviving son. He was a Royalist governor of Doncaster, and afterwards of Lincoln Castle.  He was the great-grandfather of Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland. ; 4) Anthony Fane (1613–1643), a colonel in the Parliamentary army, who suffered a shot wound to the cheek at the siege of Farnham Castle on 9 December 1642 and died at his home in Kingston upon Thames early the following year. He married Amabel Benn who after his death married Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent. ; 5) Col. George Fane (c. 1616 – April 1663), fifth but fourth surviving son. A Royalist officer and later Member of Parliament. ; 6) William Fane ; 7) Robert Fane 
Title: Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland
Content:  He was the eldest surviving son and heir of Sir Thomas Fane (died 1589) of Badsell in the parish of Tudeley in Kent, by his second wife Mary Neville, suo jure Baroness le Despenser (c. 1554–1626), heiress of Mereworth in Kent, sole daughter and heiress of Henry Nevill, 6th Baron Bergavenny (died 1587) (a descendant of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland (c.1364-1425) ) by his wife Lady Frances Manners, 3rd daughter of Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland. The earliest proven recorded ancestor of the Fane family of Kent is "Henry a Vane" (d.1456/7) of Tonbridge, Kent, thrice-great-grandfather of Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland. According to The Complete Peerage "the long line of Welsh descent, as given in the Heraldic Visitation of Kent 1574, is spurious". His younger brother was George Fane of Burston.
Title: Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland
Content: John Fane, 9th Earl of Westmorland (1728–1774) ; Henry Fane (1739–1802) ; Mary, who married Charles Blair, of Whatcomb, Dorset.  Charles Blair was the great-great grandfather of Eric Arthur Blair, who wrote under the pen name George Orwell. Thomas Fane was the second son of Henry Fane of Brympton d'Evercy in Somerset and Anne Scrope, sister and coheir of John Scrope. Anne and John were the grandchildren of Colonel Adrian Scrope, a regicide of Charles I. Thomas Fane inherited John Scrope's fortune and mansion in Bristol, and Colonel Adrian Scrope's property in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, which included Wormsley Park. In 1757 he succeeded his unmarried elder brother Francis to their father's Brympton estate and in 1762 inherited the title of Earl of Westmoreland from John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland, his father's childless second-cousin. This brought him the Earls of Westmorland seat at Apethorpe Hall in Northamptonshire. In 1727 Thomas Fane had married Elizabeth Swymmer, the daughter of a Bristol merchant and member of the slave trade, William Swymmer. The couple had two sons and two daughters, including:
Title: Henry Fane (1739–1802)
Content:  Fane was the younger son of Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland, and his wife Elizabeth Swymmer, daughter of William Swymmer, a merchant of Bristol. He was a Clerk to HM Treasury from 7 December 1757 until 29 August 1763, but was described as "very idle and careless and spending much time in the country".
Title: Francis Fane of Brympton
Content:  Fane's father was a great-grandson of Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland. His younger brother and heir, Thomas, inherited the Earldom of Westmorland on the death of the 7th earl in 1762. His youngest brother was Henry Fane of Wormsley.

Question: Who is the father of Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland?
Answer: Henry Fane of Brympton.
Henry Fane of Bristol.
Henry Fane.