Lieutenant-Colonel The Right Honourable
The Lord Bingley
PC
Lord Bingley.
Secretary for Mines
In office
6 November 1922 – 22 January 1924
MonarchGeorge V
Prime MinisterBonar Law
Stanley Baldwin
Preceded byWilliam Bridgeman
Succeeded byManny Shinwell
In office
11 November 1924 – 13 January 1928
MonarchGeorge V
Prime MinisterStanley Baldwin
Preceded byManny Shinwell
Succeeded byDouglas King
Personal details
Born15 December 1870
London, England
Died11 December 1947 (1947-12-12) (aged 76)
Political partyConservative
SpouseMary Wood (1877–1962)
Alma materNew 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.

Background and education

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. He was the great-grandson of George Lane-Fox. He was educated at Eton and at New College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1895.[1]

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.[2] He served with the regiment in the First World War, was wounded and mentioned in despatches and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel.[1]

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.[1][3] 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.[1] He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1926[4] 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.[5]

Family

Lord Bingley married Mary Agnes Emily Wood (born 25 March 1877, died 25 March 1962), daughter of Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax and sister of E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, in 1903. They had four daughters:[6]

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.[1]


References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com.
  2. ^ "No. 27429". The London Gazette. 29 April 1902. p. 2866.
  3. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 1)
  4. ^ "No. 33129". The London Gazette. 2 February 1926. p. 763.
  5. ^ "No. 33963". The London Gazette. 25 July 1933. p. 4961.
  6. ^ Burke's Landed Gentry, 1965 Edn.
  7. ^ "Robert Benson (1st Lord Bingley) 1675-1731". www.bramhampark.co.uk. Archived from the original on 16 November 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  8. ^ Burke's Peerage.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom Preceded byJoseph Andrews Member of Parliament for Barkston Ash 1906–1931 Succeeded bySir Leonard Ropner, Bt Political offices Preceded byWilliam Bridgeman Secretary for Mines 1922–1924 Succeeded byManny Shinwell Preceded byManny Shinwell Secretary for Mines 1924–1928 Succeeded byDouglas King Military offices Preceded byThe Lord Bolton Honorary Colonel of the Yorkshire Hussars 1924–1946 Succeeded byThomas Preston Peerage of the United Kingdom New creation Baron Bingley 1934–1947 Extinct
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