 Frances "née" Lane, the daughter of George Lane, 1st Viscount Lanesborough and his third wife Lady Frances Sackville.From 1734 to 1741, he was Member of Parliament for Hindon and then for the City of York from 1742 to 1761.In 1750, he took the additional name of Lane by an Act of Parliament in 1750, on succeeding to the estates of his maternal half-uncle, James Lane, 2nd Viscount Lanesborough.