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BINGHAM, ADAM, son of Rev. William Bingham LLD, Rector of Rettendon, Essex, and his second wife Katharine Lawson, widow, St. Martin Orgar, London; b.; at school under Camden two years (J. Venn, Biog. Hist. Gonville and Caius Coll., i, 161); Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 15 Jan 1596/7, aged 18, scholar Lady Day 1598 - Lady Day 1600, matr. 1597; adm. Middle Temple 19 Oct 1601. [Presumably Adam Bingham, bapt. St. Gregory by St. Paul’s, London 10 Nov 1577, parentage not stated (IGI)]

BINGHAM, GEORGE CHARLES, 3RD EARL OF LUCAN (I), eldest son of Richard Bingham, 2nd Earl of Lucan (I) (qv); b. 16 Apr 1800; adm. Midsummer 1812; left 1814; Ensign, 6th Foot, 29 Aug 1816; Ensign and Lieut., 3rd Foot Guards, 24 Dec 1818; half-pay, 25 Dec 1818; Lieut., 8th Foot, 20 Jan 1820; Capt., 74th Foot, 16 May 1822; 1st Life Guards, 20 Jun 1822; Maj., unattached, 23 Jun 1825; 17th Lancers 1 Dec 1825; Lieut. -Col., 9 Nov 1826; half-pay, 14 Apr 1837; Brevet Col., 23 Nov 1841; Maj. -Gen., 11 Nov 1851; Col., 8th Light Dragoons (Hussars) 17 Nov 1855 – Feb 1865; Lieut. -Gen., 24 Dec 1858; Col., 1st Life Guards, from 22 Feb 1865; Gen., 28 Aug 1865; Field-Marshal, 21 Jun 1887; attached to Russian Staff in Balkans 1828; commanded the Cavalry Division in the Crimean War; censured by Lord Raglan for the loss of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, where he was wounded, 25 Oct 1854; recalled on account of his differences with the Commander-in-Chief, 1855; MP Co. Mayo 1826-30; succ. his father as 3rd Earl of Lucan (I) 30 Jun 1839; an Irish Representative Peer from 1840, taking Conservative whip in House of Lords; Lord Lieut., Co. Mayo, from 1845; KCB 5 Jul 1855; GCB 2 Jun 1869; published his divisional orders and correspondence in the Crimea under the title English Cavalry in the Army of the East, 1856; m. 29 Jun 1829 Lady Anne Brudenell, seventh dau. of Robert Brudenell, 6th Earl of Cardigan; d. 10 Nov 1888. DNB.

BINGHAM, SIR GEORGE RIDOUT, eldest son of Richard Bingham (KS 1756, qv), and his second wife; b. 21 Jul 1777; at school under Vincent (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1824); Ensign, 69th Foot, 3 Jun 1793; Lieut., 21 Apr 1795; Capt., 81st Foot, 20 Jan 1796; Maj., 82nd Foot, 22 Jan 1801; Lieut. -Col., 53rd Foot, 14 Mar 1805; Col. in the Army 4 Jun 1813; Maj. -Gen., 12 Aug 1819; Col. cmdt., 2nd bn. Rifle Brigade, 18 Jun 1831; served in Kaffir War 1800, Peninsular War 1809-14; second in command under Sir Hudson Lowe at St. Helena 1815-9, with temp. rank of Brig. -Gen.; commanded Cork District 1827-32; KCB 2 Jan 1815; m. Sep 1814 Emma Septima, youngest dau. of Edmund Morton Pleydell, Whatcombe House, Dorset; d. 3 Jan 1833. DNB.

BINGHAM, GEORGE, brother of John Bingham (qv); b. 7 Nov 1715; adm. Jun 1726; KS 1728; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1732, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 25 May 1732; BA 28 Jan 1735/6; MA 1739; BD 1748; Fellow of All Souls Coll.; Proctor 1747; ordained deacon 14 Jan 1738/9, priest 13 Jan 1739/40 (both Oxford); Rector of Pimperne, Dorset, 23 May 1748; Rector of More Crichel, Dorset, 1755 (with Long Crichel from 8 Sep 1774) (dispensation to hold with Pimperne, 1755); an eminent divine and an antiquary; assisted Hutchins with his History of Dorsetshire; author of Tachilia Ete, 1772, and other works; m. 1748 Sarah Beale; d. 11 Oct 1800. DNB.

BINGHAM, HENRY, son of John Batt Bingham (qv); b. 1 May 1836; adm. (G) 26 Jan 1849; Ensign, 90th Foot, 16 Feb 1855; Lieut., 9 Sep 1855; served Crimean War and Indian Mutiny; severely wounded in one of Havelock’s actions at Lucknow, 6 Oct 1857; d. from effects of wounds received in India, 9 Jan 1860.

BINGHAM, JOHN BATT, third son of William Bingham (qv); b. 29 Jul 1787; adm. 23 Apr 1800; in school lists 1801, 1803; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 14 Jun 1805, Hulme exhibitioner 1809; BA 1809; MA 1819; ordained; Rector of St. Martin’s, Ludgate, London, 23 Mar 1819-68; Vicar of Great Gaddesden, Herts., from 28 Mar 1820; m. 24 Jun 1834 Frances, second dau. of Rev. Croxton Johnson, Rector of Wilmslow, Cheshire; d. 10 Apr 1872.

BINGHAM, JOHN, second son of Richard Bingham MP, Bingham’s Melcombe, Dorset, and Philadelphia, dau. of John Potenger, Comptroller of the Pipe; b.; adm.; KS (aged 12) 1721; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1725, matr. 2 Jun 1725, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1725-34 (void, expiry year of grace as V. Much Marcle from 14 Aug 1733); BA 1729; MA 23 Mar 1731/2; ordained; Vicar of Much Marcle, Herefs., from 1733; d. 17 Aug 1735.

Bingham, Leslie Paget Birkett, son of Herbert Berkeley Fanshawe Bingham, of Hampton Wick, Middx, and Beatrice Mary, d. of William Henry Birkett of Exeter; b. 3 June 1913; adm. Sept. 1927 (R); left July 1932; Gas Light & Coke Co.; East Surrey Regt 1940-2 (Lieut.); wounded and p.o.w. MalayaJan. 1942; d. of wounds Singapore 26 Feb 1942; despatches (posth.) Aug. 1946.

Leslie Paget Birkett Bingham was born at Montreal, Canada on the 3rd of June 1913 the only son of Herbert Berkeley Fanshawe Bingham, an insurance official, and Beatrice Mary (nee Birkett) Bingham later of “Memphis”, Pharaoh’s Island, Sunbury in Middlesex. The family returned from Canada on board the SS Scandinavia and landed at Liverpool on the 26th of December 1916. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Rigaud’s from September 1927 to July 1932 after which he went to work for the Gas, Light & Coke Co Ltd.
Following the outbreak of war he attended an Officer Cadet training Unit before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the East Surrey Regiment on the 2nd of November 1940. He was posted to the 2nd Battalion of his Regiment based at Singapore where the Battalion became heavily engaged in the fighting which followed the Japanese invasion of Malaya in December 1941. After suffering heavy casualties in the first few days of the fighting the Battalion was merged with the remnants of the 1st Battalion, Royal Leicestershire Regiment on the 20th of December 1941 to form the composite British Battalion. Leslie Bingham was appointed as the Carrier Officer for the new Battalion.
At 4am on the morning of the 10th of January 1942, the British Battalion received orders to fall back to the town of Labu, to the south of Kuala Lumpur where they arrived at 11pm that night. Before they could continue their retreat the Battalion was charged with blowing up the bridge there to impede the enemy advance.
Early on the morning of the 11th of January 1942, the Battalion set out to blow up the bridge but found that the approaches to it were mined and, when the first lorry in the column was destroyed by a mine, the column halted and Leslie Bingham volunteered to make a reconnaissance to see it was safe to proceed. While doing this his carrier was blown up and he was seriously wounded. Following a further reconnaissance the bridge was successfully destroyed at 4.30am.
He was admitted to the Alexandra Hospital, Singapore where he died from his wounds six weeks later and was buried in a slit trench in the hospital grounds by Padre Chambers. His body was later exhumed and reburied in its present location.
He was Mentioned in Despatches: - “In recognition of distinguished services in Malaya in 1942”, which was announced by the War Office on the 1st of August 1946.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Shepperton.
He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery Plot 11, Row A Grave 6.

BINGHAM, RICHARD, eldest son of Richard Bingham, barrister, Bingham’s Melcombe, Dorset, and Martha, dau. of William Batt, Salisbury; nephew of John Bingham (qv); b. 12 Sep 1741; adm.; in school list 1754; KS (aged 14) 1756; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1759, but never adm.; of Bingham’s Melcombe, Dorset; High Sheriff, Dorset 1777; Col., Dorset Militia; m. 1st, 2 Apr 1766 Sophia, dau. of Charles Halsey, Great Gaddesden, Herts.; m. 2nd, 26 Oct 1775 Elizabeth, dau. of John Ridout, Dean’s Lease, Dorset; d. 27 Apr 1824.

BINGHAM, RICHARD, 2ND EARL OF LUCAN (I), eldest son of Charles Bingham, 1st Earl of Lucan (I), and Margaret, dau. of James Smith MP, Black Torrington, Devon, and Common Leigh, Somerset; b. 4 Dec 1764; adm. 13 Jan 1777; left 1779; Ch. Ch. Oxford, matr. 11 Apr 1781; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 18 Nov 1784; MP St. Albans 1790 - Jun 1800; succ. father as 2nd Earl of Lucan (I) 29 Mar 1799; an Irish Representative Peer from 1801; m. 27 May 1794 Lady Elizabeth Belasyse, formerly wife of Bernard Howard (afterwards 12th Duke of Norfolk), and dau. of Henry Belasyse, 2nd Earl Fauconberg; d. 30 Jun 1839.