George Fox-Lane, 1st Baron Bingley (c. 1697 – 22 February 1773) was a British peer and Tory politician.
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Early life
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. 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.
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).
Career
From 1734 to 1741, he was Member of Parliament for Hindon and then for the City of York from 1742 to 1761. He took the additional name of Lane by a private act of Parliament, Lane's Name and Arms Act 1750 (24 Geo. 2. c. 7 Pr.), on succeeding to the estates of his maternal half-uncle, James Lane, 2nd Viscount Lanesborough.
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.
Personal life
On 12 July 1731, he married Hon. Harriet Benson (c. 1705-1771), the only child of Robert Benson, 1st Baron Bingley. 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.
As his only son died in 1768 and his wife in 1771, the title became extinct on his own death in 1773. His estate passed to his nephew, James, who adopted Lane as an additional surname.