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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.

BINGHAM, RICHARD, eldest son of Richard Bingham (KS 1756, qv), and his first wife; b. 1768; adm. 14 Feb 1780; KS 1781; the hero of “Bingham’s Leap” in Tothill Fields; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1786, matr. 14 Jun 1786, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1786 - 13 Nov 1788 (deprived, probably for absence); Ensign, 17th Foot, 5 Oct 1787; Lieut., 21 Jul 1790; Capt., 102nd Foot, 31 Oct 1793; Maj., 26 Nov 1794; Lieut. -Col., 16 Sep 1795; 9th Foot, 25 Nov 1799; 3rd Foot, 9 Jul 1803; Col. in the Army, 25 Sep 1803; Brig. -Gen., 25 Jul 1804 - 24 Jun 1806; Maj. -Gen., 25 Jul 1810; Lieut. -Gen., 4 Jun 1814; served in the Helder expedition 1799; m. 26 May 1792 Priscilla, dau. of Paul Carden, Cashel, Ireland; d. 18 Nov 1829.

BINGHAM, ROBERT TURBERVILLE, eldest son of William Bingham (qv); b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 15) 1793; Ensign, 18th Foot, 19 Jun 1793; Lieut., 82nd Foot, 8 Apr 1794; Capt., 16 Sep 1794; Lieut. and Capt., 1st Foot Guards, 27 Jun 1798; Brevet Maj., 1 Jan 1805; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 1 Jan 1812; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 23 Sep 1812; retd. 8 Apr 1813; m. 26 Jan 1815 (IGI) Mary, only dau. of Thomas Elliott, The Vines, Rochester, Kent; d. 14 Apr 1851.

BINGHAM, WILLIAM, brother of Richard Bingham (KS 1756, qv); b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1758; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 15 Oct 1761; BA 1765; MA 1769; DD 1790; ordained; Vicar of Stebbing, Essex 1766-78; Vicar of Great Gaddesden, Herts., from 17 Dec 1777 (disp. to hold with V. Stebbing, Essex 1777, both held 1777-8); Rector of Hemel Hempstead, Herts., from 28 Nov 1778; Archdeacon of London 13 Aug 1789 - Dec 1813; Chaplain in Ordinary to George III, 1792; JP Hertfordshire; m. 1775 Agneta, dau. of Libert Dorrien, West Ham, Essex; d. 31 Dec 1819.

Binney, Alexander Lindsay, brother of William Max Binney (qv); b. 13 Feb. 1907; adm. Sept. 1920 (H), KS 1921; left July 1925; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1925, BA 1929; asst master at the school 1930-1; at Shrewsbury Sch. 1931-69, housemaster 1948-63; Army Gen. List 1941-5 (Maj., Special Duties); m. 20 Nov. 1943 Heather, d. of Frederick William Gillespie, solicitor, Chair­man Leeds Bench of Magistrates; d. 22 aug. 2001.

Binney, William Max, son of Rev. Maximilian Frederick Breffitt Binney, Vicar of Ringwood, Hams, and Emily, d. of William Blinkhorn of St Helen's, Lancs; b. 20 Oct. 1899; adm. Sept. 1913 (KS); Capt. of the school 1917-8; left July 1918; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1919, BA 1923, MA 1955; dir. Siber, Hegner & Co., Zurich; Gren. Guards 1940-5 (Capt.); m. 5 May 1930 Gret, d. of C. Wehrli-Thielen of Zurich; d. 21 Sept. 1991.

Binyon, Denis Edmund Fynes-Clinton, son of John Frederick Binyon, solicitor, of Grange­-over-Sands, Lancs, and Mabel, d. of Rev. Osbert Fynes-Clinton, Vicar of Didsbury, Lancs; b. 29 May 1905; adm. Sept. 1919 (A), KS 1920; left July 1924; Merton Coll. Oxf., matric. 1924, BA 1928 (1st class hons Classical Mods); asst lecturer in Latin, Univ. of Leeds, 1928, sen. lecturer 1950; m. 25 Mar. 1933 Nancy, d. of John Emmerson of Harrogate, Yorks; d. 11 Apr. 1970.