Sir Lionel Vane-Fletcher, 1st Baronet.

About Sir Lionel Vane-Fletcher, 1st Baronet

Sir Lionel Wright Vane-Fletcher, 1st Baronet was a British landowner. The son of a successful merchant in London and Rotterdam, he was the owner of a large estate in Cumberland. He was created a baronet, of Hutton in the County of Cumberland, on 27 June 1786. According to the literature of his ancestral seat, Hutton in the Forest, Lionel was a friend of John Howard, the prison reformer, and was made a baronet "through the influence" of his cousin, Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington, who made the request to William Pitt the Younger. The baronetcy was then created by George III.