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borough estates, and, on the death of the latter without 

 issue, her son George Fox, M.P. for the city of York, 

 inherited, by right of his mother, all the estates of Lord 

 Lanesborough, and added the name of Lane to his own. 

 George Fox Lane, for so the names were placed for 

 several generations, married, in 1731, Harriet, daughter 

 and sole heir of Robert, Lord Bingley, Chancellor of the 

 Exchequer under Queen Anne, and Treasurer of the 

 Household to George II, who granted him for his 

 services a large part of the extensive Bramham Moor in 

 Yorkshire. Lord Bingley reclaimed a great portion of 

 the Moor, and built himself a fine mansion with singu- 

 larly beautiful gardens and grounds, planned by an 

 eminent Italian landscape gardener. He called his seat 

 Bramham Park. On his death in 1730, his daughter 

 inherited the whole of his estates, worth £yooo a year, 

 besides ^100,000 in the funds. Thirty years after his 

 marriage to her, in 1762, George Fox Lane was allowed by 

 letters patent to take the title of his father-in-law, Baron 

 Bingley, but, as his son died childless before him, the 

 title became extinct, and the English and Irish 

 estates descended to the nephew of the deceased Baron, 

 James Fox Lane, who died in 1825, leaving all his 

 landed property to his eldest son, George Lane Fox 

 (who transposed the names), and nearly half a million 

 of money to his widow and the younger children. 



James Fox Lane was an intimate friend of George IV, 

 who, as Prince of Wales, frequently visited Bramham 

 Park and enjoyed the hunting there, for His Royal 

 Highness in his youthful days rode as straight and well 

 to hounds as his present successor did before increas- 

 ing bulk compelled him, too, to forego the pleasures of 

 the Chase. James Fox Lane was also a personal friend 



