George Lane-Fox (MP)
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Bramham Park
Bramham Park is a country house between Leeds and Wetherby, West Yorkshire, England. The Baroque mansion was built in 1698 by Robert Benson, 1st Baron Bingley. It has remained in the ownership of Benson's descendents since its completion in 1710...
, Yorkshire
Yorkshire
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, was a British landowner and Tory politician.
Lane-Fox was the son of James Fox-Lane, of Bramham Park
Bramham Park
Bramham Park is a country house between Leeds and Wetherby, West Yorkshire, England. The Baroque mansion was built in 1698 by Robert Benson, 1st Baron Bingley. It has remained in the ownership of Benson's descendents since its completion in 1710...
, Yorkshire
Yorkshire
Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...
, by the Honourable Mary Lucy, daughter of George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers
George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers
George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers was a British diplomat and politician.-Background and education:He born in Geneva, the eldest son of George Pitt of Stratfieldsaye, Hampshire and his wife Mary Louise Bernier from Strasbourg. General Sir William Augustus Pitt was his younger brother...
. He was the brother of Sackville Lane-Fox
Sackville Lane-Fox
Sackville Walter Lane-Fox , was a British Conservative Party politician.-Background:Lane-Fox was the son of James Fox-Lane, of Bramham Park, Yorkshire, by the Honourable Mary Lucy, daughter of George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers...
and the uncle of Sackville Lane-Fox, 12th Baron Conyers
Sackville Lane-Fox, 12th Baron Conyers
Sackville George Lane-Fox, 15th Baron Darcy de Knayth and 12th Baron Conyers was a British peer and soldier....
and Augustus Pitt Rivers
Augustus Pitt Rivers
Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers was an English army officer, ethnologist, and archaeologist. He was noted for his innovations in archaeological methods, and in the museum display of archaeological and ethnological collections.-Life and career:Born Augustus Henry Lane-Fox at...
.
Lane-Fox was returned to parliament for Beverley
Beverley (UK Parliament constituency)
Beverley has been the name of a parliamentary constituency in the East Riding of Yorkshire for three separate periods. From medieval times until 1869, it was a parliamentary borough, consisting solely of the market town of Beverley, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons...
in 1820, a seat he held until 1826 and again between 1837 and 1840. His brother Sackville Lane-Fox succeeded him in 1840.
Lane-Fox married Georgiana Henrietta, daughter of Edward Percy Buckley, of Minestead Lodge, Hampshire
Hampshire
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, in 1814. They had one son and two daughters. His only son George Lane-Fox (d. 1848), High Sheriff
High Sheriff
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of County Leitrim
County Leitrim
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and of the West Riding of Yorkshire, was the grandfather of George Lane-Fox, 1st Baron Bingley. Lane-Fox died in November 1848, aged 55.