George Lane-Fox, 1st Baron Bingley
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George Richard Lane-Fox, 1st Baron Bingley, PC (15 December 1870 – 11 December 1947) was a British Unionist (Conservative) politician.
Lane-Fox was educated at Eton College and at New College, Oxford. He became a barrister, called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1895. He married the Hon. Mary Wood in 1903, with whom he had four daughters (including Mary, who married Robert Bridgeman, 2nd Viscount Bridgeman). He served with the Yorkshire Hussars Yeomanry in World War I, was mentioned in despatches and rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
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 incument Joseph Andrews. He went on to represent the constituency until 1931. He served in government as Parliamentary Secretary for the Mines 1922-1924 and from December 1924 (after the fall of the first Labour Government) until 1928. He became a Privy Counselor after 1926 and was a member of the Indian Statutory Commission.
He was elevated to the peerage on 24 July 1933 as the first Baron Bingley but having no male heir, the barony became extinct on his death in 1947.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Joseph Andrews |
Member of Parliament for Barkston Ash 1906–1931 |
Succeeded by Sir Leonard Ropner |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by (new creation) |
Baron Bingley 1933–1947 |
Succeeded by (extinct) |
Categories: 1870 births | 1947 deaths | Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom | British Army officers | Conservative MPs (UK) | English barristers | Members of the United Kingdom Parliament from English constituencies | Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom | UK MPs 1906-1910 | UK MPs 1910 | UK MPs 1910-1918 | UK MPs 1918-1922 | UK MPs 1922-1923 | UK MPs 1923-1924 | UK MPs 1924-1929 | UK MPs 1929-1931
