St George Lane Fox-Pitt
St George William Lane Fox-Pitt (born 14 September 1856 in Malta, died 6 April 1932 in South Eaton Place) was a British electrical engineer and student of psychic phenomena.
His parents were Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane-Fox (1827–1900) and Alice Margaret (1828–1910, née Stanley).
On the death of his father's cousin Horace Pitt-Rivers, 6th Baron Rivers, the family took the name "Fox Pitt-Rivers" on May 25, 1880.
In 1878, Fox-Pitt was granted a patent on a light bulb with a platinum-iridium filament.
The patent also describes a system for power distribution using incandescent lamps in parallel.
On 12 December 1879, Charles Francis Brush founded the Anglo-American Electric Light Company Ltd in the UK, and in the same year acquired the patent rights to produce the Lane-Fox incandescent lamp.
On 24 March 1880, he founded a new company, Anglo-American Brush Electric Light Corporation, which took over the previous one.
About 1880, Fox-Pitt is said to have successfully experimented with charred plant fibres as the filament material.
That was about the same time as the development of the light bulb with carbon filament by Edison in the United States.
By 1883, Fox-Pitt had obtained further patents.
Fox-Pitt wrote books on the philosophy of science, education, and social problems.
He was temporarily Vice-President of the Moral Education League and organized the International Moral Education Congress.
He was also one of the first active members of the Society for Psychical Research.
In 1891, he repurchased the patent rights of the Anglo-American Brush Electric Light Corporation and built himself a small lamp factory.
In 1898, he participated in a railway concession in Ecuador.
In 1899, he married Lady Edith Gertrude Douglas (1874–1963), the daughter of John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.
Julian Pitt-Rivers
Julian Alfred Lane Fox Pitt- Rivers( 16 March 1919 – 12 August 2001) was a British social anthropologist, an ethnographer, and a professor at universities in three countries.
George Lane-Fox (MP)
George Lane- Fox( 4 May 1793 – 15 November 1848), of Bramham Park, Yorkshire, was a British landowner and Tory politician.
Lane- Fox was the son of James Fox- Lane, of Bramham Park, Yorkshire, by the Honourable Mary Lucy, daughter of George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers.
He was the brother of Sackville Lane- Fox and the uncle of Sackville Lane- Fox, 12th Baron Conyers, and Augustus Pitt Rivers.
He inherited Bramham Park, near Wetherby but moved to Bowcliffe Hall after Bramham Hall was severely damaged by fire in 1828.
Lane- Fox was returned to parliament for Beverley in 1820, a seat he held until 1826 and again between 1837 and 1840.
His brother Sackville Lane- Fox succeeded him in 1840.
Lane- Fox died in November 1848, aged 55.
He had married Georgiana Henrietta, daughter of Edward Percy Buckley, of Minestead Lodge, Hampshire, in 1814.
They had one son and two daughters.
His only son George Lane- Fox( d. 1896), High Sheriff of Leitrim and of Yorkshire, was the grandfather of George Lane- Fox, 1st Baron Bingley.
Sackville Lane-Fox, 12th Baron Conyers
Sackville George Lane-Fox, 12th Baron Conyers and "de jure" 15th Baron Darcy de Knayth (14 September 1827 – 24 August 1888) was a British peer and soldier.
Rosalind Pitt-Rivers
Rosalind Venetia Lane Fox Pitt- Rivers FRS( 4 March 1907 – 14 January 1990) was a British biochemist.
She became the second president of the European Thyroid Association in 1971.
She succeeded Jean Roche and was followed by Jack Gross in this position, all three names inextricably linked with the discovery of the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine( T).
Michael Pitt-Rivers
Major Michael Augustus Lane- Fox Pitt- Rivers( 27 May 1917 – December 1999) was a West Country landowner who gained notoriety in Britain in the 1950s when he was put on trial charged with buggery.
This trial was instrumental in bringing public attention—and opposition—to the laws against homosexual acts as they then stood.
Joseph Andrews (British politician)
Joseph Ormond Andrews( 1873 – 26 January 1909) was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Andrews was educated at the Ripon Cathedral Choir School.
A barrister by profession, Andrews was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1898 and practised on the North Eastern circuit.
A Freemason, he was a member of the Zetland Lodge in Leeds.
A keen sportsman, he was a follower of the Bramham Moor Hounds, and ran horses at the Wetherby Steeplechase.
Andrews was elected as Member of Parliament( MP) for Barkston Ash at a by-election in October 1905 following the death of Sir Robert Gunter, defeating the Conservative candidate George Lane- Fox by 228 votes.
The seat had never been won by the Liberals before.
However, as Parliament was not sitting at the time, Andrews was unable to take his seat.
Andrews lost the seat only three months later at the 1906 general election to the Conservative Party candidate, again George Lane- Fox( later 1st Baron Bingley), losing by 548 votes.
His defeat was one of the few Liberal losses at an election which saw the party win a landslide majority in the House of Commons.
Andrews thus became one of the shortest- serving Members of Parliament, and one of only a handful never to take their seats.
Andrews died, in 1909, at Boston Spa, Leeds.
after two operations for appendicitis.
He was 36 years old and left a widow and two children.
Augustus Pitt Rivers
Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers (14 April 18274 May 1900) was an English officer in the British Army, ethnologist, and archaeologist.
He was noted for innovations in archaeological methodology, and in the museum display of archaeological and ethnological collections.
His international collection of about 22,000 objects was the founding collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford while his collection of English archaeology from the area around Stonehenge forms the basis of the collection at The Salisbury Museum in Wiltshire.
Throughout most of his life he used the surname Lane Fox, under which his early archaeological reports are published.
In 1880 he adopted the Pitt Rivers name on inheriting from Lord Rivers (a cousin) an estate of more than 32,000 acres in Cranborne Chase.
Felicity Lane-Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox
Felicity Lane- Fox, Baroness Lane- Fox, OBE( 22 June 1918 – 17 April 1988) was a Conservative member of the House of Lords and champion of disability issues.
She was born in Tadcaster, Yorkshire, the daughter of Edward Lane- Fox, who was brother of George Lane- Fox, 1st Baron Bingley.
At the age of 12 she was paralysed by an attack of poliomyelitis.
In 1963 she became a member of the executive of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations.
In the 1976 New Year Honours list she was appointed OBE for services to disabled people.
In 1981 she was made a life peer, as Baroness Lane- Fox, of Bramham in the County of West Yorkshire.
Using an electric wheelchair, she was an active member of the House of Lords until her death.
She was the aunt of Robin Lane Fox and great- aunt of his daughter Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane- Fox of Soho.
George Pitt-Rivers
George Henry Lane- Fox Pitt- Rivers( 22 May 1890 – 17 June 1966) was a British anthropologist and eugenicist who was one of the wealthiest men in England in the interwar period.
He embraced anti-Bolshevism and anti-Semitism, and was interned by the British government for two years during World War II.

Question: Where did St George Lane Fox-Pitt's father die?
Answer: Wiltshire