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bringing to him, it is said, a fortune of 100,000 and 

 property, including Bramham Park, worth ^,7,000 a 

 year. Her husband, who had added the name of 

 Eane to his patronymic of Fox, on succeeding to the 

 Irish estates of that family, under the will of his 



m a t e r n a 1 uncle James, 

 second Viscount Lanes- 

 borough, represented 

 Headon in Parliament from 

 1734 to 1741, and the city 

 of York from 1 747 to 1 762, 

 when he was raised to the 

 peerage as Baron Bingley 

 of a new creation. He 

 died at Bramham in 1773, 

 at the age of seventy-seven, 

 having somewhat altered 

 the grounds to suit the fancy 

 of the landscape school. 

 His only son Robert had 

 predeceased him, and his 

 estates passed to his 

 nephew, Mr. James Lane- 

 Eox, who took a prominent 

 part in the affairs of 

 the county, of which he 

 was High Sheriff in 1804, 

 and he was long a 

 Member of Parliament. 

 When he died in 1821, his son, Mr. George 

 Lane-Fox, came into the estate, and was also of 

 Drumance Castle, County Leitrim. In his time 

 the sad disaster of fire devastated the house at 

 Bramham. Only quite recently has the work of 



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