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, a banker and MP for Southampton.

[3] He served with the regiment in the First World War, was wounded and mentioned in despatches and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

[2] In the 1906 general election which produced a Liberal landslide, Barkston Ash was one of the few constituencies that went the other way.

[citation needed] On 24 July 1933 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Bingley, of Bramham in the County of York.

[2] On the death of Lord Bingley, his eldest daughter and son-in-law took over the running of the Bramham Park estate.