George Lane-Fox (MP)

George Lane-Fox (4 May 1793 – 15 November 1848), of Bramham Park, Yorkshire, was a British landowner and Tory politician.

Early life
Lane-Fox was born on 4 May 1793. He was the eldest son of James Fox-Lane, of Bramham Park, Yorkshire, by the Hon. Mary Lucy Pitt, daughter of George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers. He was the brother of Sackville Lane-Fox and the uncle of Sackville Lane-Fox, 12th Baron Conyers, and Augustus Pitt Rivers.

He was educated at Westminster before matriculating at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1811.

Career
His wealthy, but profligate, father James, a friend of George IV when he was the Prince of Wales, had inherited the extensive Bramham estate near Wetherby in 1773 from his uncle, the 1st Baron Bingley, and served as an inconspicuous Member for Horsham in Parliament. After his father's death in 1821, George became addicted to horse racing and "gambled away half his fortune" within a few months. After Bramham Hall was severely damaged by fire in 1828, he moved to Bowcliffe Hall.

Lane-Fox was returned to parliament for Beverley in 1820, a seat he held until 1826 and again between 1837 and 1840. His brother Sackville succeeded him in 1840.

Personal life
On 20 September 1814, Lane-Fox was married to Georgiana Henrietta Buckley (1874–1894), a "society figure of dubious virtue" who was a daughter of Edward Pery Buckley, of Minestead Lodge, Hampshire, and the former Lady Georgiana West (a daughter of the 2nd Earl De La Warr) who had been a Lady of the Bedchamber to the royal princesses. Together, they had one son and two daughters, including:


 * George Lane-Fox (1816–1896), High Sheriff of Leitrim and of Yorkshire who married Katherine Mary Stein, a daughter of John Stein, in 1814.
 * Frederica Elizabeth Lane-Fox (1822–1867), who married Hon. Sir Adolphus Liddell, son of Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth, in 1845.

By early 1824, Lane-Fox and his wife were separated, but he sought a reconciliation two years later. Nevertheless, by the late 1820s, his wife "had a 'notorious' and indiscreet affair" with George Stanhope, 6th Earl of Chesterfield, who abandoned her in 1830 to marry Anne Weld Forester (a granddaughter of the 4th Duke of Rutland).

Lane-Fox died in November 1848, aged 55.

Descendants
Through his son George, he was the great-grandfather of George Lane-Fox, 1st Baron Bingley.