George Lane-Fox, 1st Baron Bingley
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The Right Honourable The Lord Bingley PC |
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Lord Bingley.
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| Secretary for Mines | |
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In office 6 November 1922 – 22 January 1924 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Prime Minister |
Bonar Law Stanley Baldwin |
| Preceded by | William Bridgeman |
| Succeeded by | Manny Shinwell |
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In office 11 November 1924 – 13 January 1928 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Prime Minister | Stanley Baldwin |
| Preceded by | Manny Shinwell |
| Succeeded by | Douglas King |
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| Born | 15 December 1870 London, England |
| Died | 11 December 1947 (aged 76) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Hon. Mary Wood (1877—1962) |
| Alma mater | New College, Oxford |
Lieutenant-Colonel 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.
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.
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. He served with the regiment in the First World War, was wounded and 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 incumbent Joseph Andrews who had defeated him in a by-election the previous year. He went on to represent the constituency until 1931. 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. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1926 and was a member of the Indian Statutory Commission. On 24 July 1933 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Bingley, of Bramham in the County of York.
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