George Lane-Fox, 1st Baron Bingley

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, and the great-grandson of George Lane-Fox, MP for Beverley.

He was educated at Eton and at New College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1895. He served with the regiment in the First World War, was wounded and mentioned in despatches and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. 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. and was a member of the Indian Statutory Commission.

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

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:

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. 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.

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