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Lieutenant-Colonel The Right Honourable
The Lord Bingley
PC
Lieutenant-Colonel The Right Honourable The Lord Bingley PC
	Lord Bingley.
Secretary for Mines
	In office; 6 November 1922 – 22 January 1924
Monarch	George V
Prime Minister	Bonar Law ; Stanley Baldwin
Preceded by	William Bridgeman
Succeeded by	Manny Shinwell
	In office; 11 November 1924 – 13 January 1928
Monarch	George V
Prime Minister	Stanley Baldwin
Preceded by	Manny Shinwell
Succeeded by	Douglas King
Personal details
Born	15 December 1870; London, England
Died	11 December 1947 (aged 76)
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Mary Wood (1877–1962)
Alma mater	New College, Oxford

George Richard Lane Fox, 1st Baron Bingley, PC (15 December 1870 – 11 December 1947) was a British Conservative politician. He served as Secretary for Mines between 1922 and 1924, and again between 1924 and 1928.

Early life

Lane Fox was born in London, the son of Captain James Thomas Richard Lane Fox, of Hope Hall and Bramham Park, Yorkshire, and Lucy Frances Jane, daughter of Humphrey St John-Mildmay, a banker and MP for Southampton. He was the grandson of High Sheriff George Lane-Fox,^[1] and the great-grandson of George Lane-Fox, MP for Beverley.^[2]

He was educated at Eton and at New College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1895.^[2]

Career

Lane Fox was a militia officer in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment when in April 1902 he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Yeomanry regiment the Yorkshire Hussars.^[3] He served with the regiment in the First World War, was wounded and mentioned in despatches and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel.^[2]

Political career

In the 1906 general election which produced a Liberal landslide, Barkston Ash was one of the few constituencies that went the other way. Lane Fox for the Conservatives defeated the Liberal incumbent Joseph Andrews who had defeated him in a by-election the previous year. He went on to represent the constituency until 1931.^[2]^[4] He served as Secretary for Mines from 1922 to 1924 and again from December 1924 (after the fall of the first Labour Government) until 1928.^[2] He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1926^[5] and was a member of the Indian Statutory Commission.^{[citation needed]}

On 24 July 1933 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Bingley, of Bramham in the County of York.^[6]

Personal life

In 1903, Lane-Fox was married to Mary Agnes Emily Wood (1877–1962), a daughter of Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax and sister of E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax. They had four daughters:^[7]

Hon. Marcia Agnes Mary Lane Fox (1904–1980), who married Francis Gordon Ward Jackson in 1929. He later took the name Lane Fox by deed poll and served in World War II, becoming Honorary Col. of the Yorkshire Hussars.^[8]
Hon. Mary Kathleen Lane Fox (1905–1981), who married Robert Bridgeman, 2nd Viscount Bridgeman in 1930.^[9]
Hon. Dorothy Lane Fox (1909–1980), who married Sir Kenneth Wade Parkinson of Creskeld Hall.
Hon. Margaret Lane Fox (1913–1986), who married Maj. Charles Packe, Royal Fusiliers, in 1939. After he was killed in action in Normandy in 1944, she married James Hunter in 1951. They divorced in 1956 and she married Brig. Kenneth Hargreaves in 1969.

Lord Bingley died in December 1947, aged 76. As he had no sons the barony died with him. Lady Bingley died in March 1962, aged 85.^[2] On the death of Lord Bingley, his eldest daughter and son-in-law took over the running of the Bramham Park estate.^[8]

Family tree

Lane–Fox–Pitt–Rivers family tree

Thomas Darcy, 1st Earl Rivers
(died 1640)

Elizabeth Savage, Countess Rivers
(1581–1650)

Thomas Savage, 1st Viscount Savage
(died 1635)

John Savage, 2nd Earl Rivers
(1603–1654)

Sir Richard Lane, 1st Baronet
(died 1668)

George Pitt
(died 1694)

Jane Savage
(died 1676)

Thomas Savage, 3rd Earl Rivers
(died 1694)

Richard Savage

George Lane, 1st Viscount Lanesborough
(died 1683)

George Pitt
(died 1735)

Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers
(died 1712)

John Savage, 5th Earl Rivers
(1665–1737)

James Lane, 2nd Viscount Lanesborough
(1650–1724)

Robert Benson, 1st Baron Bingley
(died 1731)

Frances Lane
(died 1674)

Henry Fox
(1650-1719)

George Pitt
(died 1745)

Harriet Benson
(died 1771)

George Fox-Lane, 1st Baron Bingley
{died 1773)

Sackville Fox
(died 1760)

George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers
(1721–1803)

Robert Lane
(1732–1768)

James Fox-Lane
(1756–1821)

Marcia Lucy Pitt
(1756–1822)

George Pitt, 2nd Baron Rivers
(1751–1828)

Louisa Pitt
(died 1791)

Sir Peter Beckford
(1740–1811)

George Lane-Fox
(1793–1848)

William Augustus Pitt Lane-Fox
(1796–1832)

Sackville Lane-Fox
(1797–1874)

Horace Pitt-Rivers, 3rd Baron Rivers

George Lane-Fox
(1816–1896)

Augustus Pitt Rivers
(1827–1900)

Sackville Lane-Fox, 12th Baron Conyers
(1827–1888)

George Pitt-Rivers, 4th Baron Rivers
(1810–1866)

Horace Pitt-Rivers, 6th Baron Rivers
(1814–1880)

James Thomas Richard Lane-Fox
(1841–1906)

Alexander Edward Lane Fox-Pitt-Rivers
(1855–1927)

St George Lane Fox-Pitt
(1856–1932)

William Augustus Lane Fox-Pitt
(1858– )

Douglas Fox-Pitt
(1864–1922)

Marcia Pelham, Countess of Yarborough
(1863–1926)

Violet Herbert, Countess of Powis
(1865–1929)

Henry Pitt-Rivers, 5th Baron Rivers
(1849–1867)

George Lane-Fox, 1st Baron Bingley
(1870–1947)

Edward Lane-Fox
(1874–1949)

Emily Rachel Forster (died 1979)

George Pitt-Rivers
(1890–1966)

Rosalind Pitt-Rivers
(1907–1990)

William Augustus Fitzgerald Lane Fox-Pitt
(1896–1988)

Francis Lane Fox
(1899–1989)

Marcia Agnes Mary Lane-Fox
(1904–1980)

James Henry Lane-Fox
(1912– )

Felicity Lane-Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox
(1918–1988)

Michael Pitt-Rivers
(1917–1999)

Julian Pitt-Rivers
(1919–2001)

George Anthony Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
(born 1932)

Valerie Pitt-Rivers
(born 1939)

William Oliver Lane Fox-Pitt
(1932–2012)

George Francis Lane Fox
(1931–2012)

Robin Lane Fox
(born 1946)

William Fox-Pitt
(born 1969)

Edward Lane Fox
(born 1976)

Martha Lane Fox
(born 1973)

References

^ Walford, Edward (1869). The County Families of the United Kingdom Or, Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland ... R. Hardwicke. p. 578. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 3, page 3290.
^ "No. 27429". The London Gazette. 29 April 1902. p. 2866.
^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 1)
^ "No. 33129". The London Gazette. 2 February 1926. p. 763.
^ "No. 33963". The London Gazette. 25 July 1933. p. 4961.
^ Burke's Landed Gentry, 1965 Edn.
^ ^a ^b "Robert Benson (1st Lord Bingley) 1675–1731". www.bramhampark.co.uk. Archived from the original on 16 November 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
^ Burke's Peerage.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by George Lane-Fox

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Joseph Andrews	Member of Parliament for Barkston Ash 1906–1931	Succeeded by Sir Leonard Ropner, Bt
Political offices
Preceded by William Bridgeman	Secretary for Mines 1922–1924	Succeeded by Manny Shinwell
Preceded by Manny Shinwell	Secretary for Mines 1924–1928	Succeeded by Douglas King
Military offices
Preceded by The Lord Bolton	Honorary Colonel of the Yorkshire Hussars 1924–1946	Succeeded by Thomas Preston
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baron Bingley 1934–1947	Extinct