The Fletcher-Vane (previously Vane-Fletcher) baronetcy, of Hutton in the Forest in the County of Cumberland, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain.The Baronetage and Knightage of The British Empire, for 1882, by Joseph Foster. Published Westminster, Chapman and Hall Limited, 11 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, 1882. It was created on 27 June 1786 at the end of his life for the landowner Lionel Vane-Fletcher.
His son, the 2nd Baronet, was a Member of Parliament for Winchelsea and Carlisle. He assumed the surname of Fletcher-Vane in lieu of Vane-Fletcher.
The 5th Baronet was involved in the Scouting movement.Obituary in The Times, Sir Francis Vane, 11 June 1934, p. 17. The title became extinct on his death in 1934.
Fletcher-Vane (previously Vane-Fletcher) baronets, of Hutton Sir Lionel Wright Vane-Fletcher, 1st Baronet (1723–1786) Sir Frederick Fletcher-Vane, 2nd Baronet (1760–1832) Sir Francis Fletcher-Vane, 3rd Baronet (1797–1842) Sir Henry Ralph Fletcher-Vane, 4th Baronet (1830–1908) Sir Francis Patrick Fletcher Vane, 5th Baronet (1861–1934), founder of the Boy Scouts movement in Italy, and also of the Order of World Scouts. He left no heir.
Extended family The family estates at Hutton in the Forest passed to William Vane, a distant kinsman of the Fletcher-Vane baronets, who took the surname Fletcher-Vane in 1931 and was created Baron Inglewood in 1964.Hutton in the Forest Guide book, no date. The surname reflects descent from the Fletcher baronets of Hutton, but Inglewood was not a descendant of the Fletcher family, unlike the Fletcher-Vane baronets who were direct descendants.
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