George Fox-Lane, 1st Baron Bingley
George Fox-Lane, 1st Baron Bingley (c. 1697 – 22 February 1773) was a British peer and Tory politician.
Early life
[edit]Born George Fox, he was the first son and heir of Henry Fox and his second wife, Frances Bourke, Viscountess Galway (née Hon. Frances Lane). His elder brother was Sackville Fox, father of James Fox-Lane, MP for Horsham.[1] His mother was the widow of Ulick Bourke, 1st Viscount Galway (a son of William Burke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde), an Irish army officer who was killed at the Battle of Aughrim while fighting for the Jacobites during the Williamite War in Ireland.[2]
His maternal grandparents were George Lane, 1st Viscount Lanesborough and, his third wife, Lady Frances Sackville (a daughter of the 5th Earl of Dorset). His paternal grandparents were Maj. Joseph Fox of Graigue, County Tipperary and the Hon. Thomasine Blayney (a daughter of the 2nd Baron Blayney).[3]
Career
[edit]From 1734 to 1741, he was Member of Parliament for Hindon and then for the City of York from 1742 to 1761. In 1750, he took the additional name of Lane by an Act of Parliament in 1750, on succeeding to the estates of his maternal half-uncle, James Lane, 2nd Viscount Lanesborough.[3]
On 13 May 1762, Lane-Fox's father-in-law's extinct title was re-created, when he was created Baron Bingley, of Bingley in the County of York, with remainder only to his heirs male with his wife, Harriet.[4]
Personal life
[edit]On 12 July 1731, he married Hon. Harriet Benson (c. 1705-1771), the only child of Robert Benson, 1st Baron Bingley.[5] They were the parents of:
- Robert Fox-Lane (1732–1768), who served as Lord Mayor of York in 1757; he married twice, but had no children.[6]
As his only son died in 1768 and his wife in 1771, the title became extinct on his own death in 1773.[3] His estate passed to his nephew, James, who adopted Lane as an additional surname.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Port, M. H. (1986). "FOX LANE, James (1756-1821), of Bramham Park, Yorks.". In Thorne, R. G. (ed.). The House of Commons 1790-1820. The History of Parliament Trust.
- ^ Burke, John; Burke, Bernard (1844). Encyclopædia of Heraldry: Or General Armory of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Comprising a Registry of All Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, Including the Late Grants by the College of Arms. H. G. Bohn.
- ^ a b c Sedgwick, Romney R. "FOX (afterwards FOX LANE), George (c.1696-1773), of Bramham Park, Yorks". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
- ^ Dugdale, William; Banks, Thomas Christopher (1812). The Antient Usage in Bearing of ... Arms [with a Catalogue of the Present [i.e. 1682] Nobility of England ... Scotland and Ireland] ...: A Brief Discourse Touching the Office of High Chancellor of England ... with Catalogues of the Lord Chancellors and Justiciars of England ... Titles of Honour of the English Nobility ... from the ... Norman Conquest to ... 1810 ... Samuel Bagster. p. 417. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
- ^ Turner, Joseph Horsfall (1897). Ancient Bingley: Or, Bingley, Its History and Scenery. T. Harrison. p. 192. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
- ^ John Brooke, LANE, Robert (1732-68), of Bramham Park, Yorks. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790 (1964).