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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.

BERKELEY, HON. GEORGE, brother of Charles Berkeley, Viscount Dursley (qv); b. 24 Feb 1691/2; adm.; QS (Capt., aged 15) 1708; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1711, adm. pens. 31 May 1711, scholar 15 May 1712, readm. nob. 10 Feb 1713; MA 1713; adm. Inner Temple 1 Aug 1707; Clerk of the Privy Council 1716-26; MP Dover 20 Dec 1720-34, Hedon 1734-41, and from 4 Mar 1742; Master, Hospital of St. Katherine’s by the Tower, London, from 28 May 1738; m. 1 Jul 1735 [or 26 Jun ?] Henrietta, widow of Charles Howard, 9th Earl of Suffolk, and sister of John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire (qv); d. 29 Oct 1746. DNB.

BENNETT, RICHARD HENRY ALEXANDER, son of Richard Henry Alexander Bennett (qv); b.; adm. 30 May 1777; left 1781; entered Royal Navy; Lieut., 5 May 1790; Cdr., 30 Oct 1793; Post Capt., 1 Jan 1796; MP Launceston 1802-6, Enniskillen 14 Jan 1807-07, Launceston 17 Jul 1807- Apr 1812; d. unm. 11 Oct 1818, aged 47.

BECKFORD, RICHARD, brother of William Beckford (adm. Jan. 1718/9, qv); bapt. 3 Feb 1711/2; adm. (aged 9) Jul 1721; in under school list 1724; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 15 Jan 1727/8; migrated to University Coll.; BA 1731; adm. Middle Temple 17 Jun 1730, called to bar 6 Feb 1735/6; landowner in Jamaica; MP Bristol from 1754; Alderman, City of London (Farringdon Ward Without) from 29 Oct 1754; Prime Warden, Goldsmiths’ Co., 1755; d. unm. at Lyon, France 24 Jan 1756.

BARNETT, JAMES, brother of Charles Barnett (qv); b.; adm. 14 Sep 1769; left 1776; a banker, partner Barnett Hoare Hill and Barnett, Lombard Street, from 1790; MP Rochester 1806-7, 27 Jun 1816- Feb 1817, Mar 1817-20; m. c. 1797 Anne ---; d. 1 Oct 1836, aged 70.

BARNE, SNOWDON, brother of Barne Barne (qv); b. 26 Dec 1756; adm. 19 Jan 1770; left 1773; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 28 Dec 1773, scholar 1775, matr. Lent 1776; LLB 1781; Fellow of Trinity Hall from Sep 1786; adm. Middle Temple 9 Nov 1775, called to bar 29 Jun 1781; migrated to Inner Temple Jun 1782, tenant chambers there 14 Jun 1782, Bencher 1816; MP Dunwich 1796-1812; Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer in Court of Exchequer from 26 Nov 1805; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury Dec 1809 - Oct 1812; a Commissioner of Customs 22 Oct 1812 - Sep 1823; d. unm. 3 Jul 1825.

BARNE, MICHAEL, brother of Barne Barne (qv); b. 3 Jun 1759; adm. 13 Jan 1772; left 1775 [sic ?]; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 22 Nov 1774, matr. Lent 1777, scholar 1777; Cornet, 7th Light Dragoons 13 Jan 1778; Lieut., 5 Jan 1780; Capt. 16 Jun 1783; Maj., 1 Mar 1794; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 1 Jan 1798; Lieut. -Col., 7th Light Dragoons 19 Jul 1799; retd. 4 Apr 1805; served under Duke of York in campaign in Netherlands 1793-4; MP Dunwich 1812-30; inherited Sotterley estate from half-brother 1825; m. 2 Oct 1798 Mary, dau. of Ayscough Boucherett MP, Willingham, Lincs.; d. 19 Jun 1837.

BARNE, FREDERICK, only son of Michael Barne (qv); b. 8 Nov 1801; adm. Christmas 1814; left 22 Mar 1817; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 24 Nov 1816, matr. Mich. 1819; Cornet, 4th Dragoons 24 Jul 1823; Lieut., 12th Lancers 8 Dec 1825; Capt., 31 Dec 1829; sold out 2 Nov 1832; MP Dunwich 1830-2; of Sotterley Park, Suffolk; kept a racing stud; member Jockey Club from 1835; DL JP East Suffolk; m. 4 Feb 1834 Mary Anne Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Sir John Courtenay Honywood, Bart.; d. 9 Mar 1886.

BANKES, WILLIAM JOHN, second son of Henry Bankes (qv); b. 11 Dec 1786; adm. 12 Apr 1794; in school lists 1795, 1797, 1801, May 1803; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 22 Jun 1803, aged 16, matr. Lent 1806; BA 1808; MA 1811; MP Truro 2 Jul 1810 -2, Cambridge Univ. 27 Nov 1822-6, Marlborough 23 Mar 1829 -32, Dorset 1832-4; one of Lord Byron’s early friends and “the father of all mischiefs” (see The Works of Lord Byron, Letters and Journals, 1898, vol. i, 120, 151, 152); travelled extensively in the Mediterranean and Near East; member, Society of Dilettanti, 1821; inherited Soughton Hall estate, Flintshire 1815; High Sheriff, Merioneth 1829; translated from the Italian an autobiographical memoir of Giovanni Finati, 1830; succeeded to father’s Dorset estates 1834, but his private life gave rise to scandal and he lived permanently abroad after 1840; DL JP Dorset; d. unm. at Venice 15 Apr 1855. DNB.

ASTLEY, SIR JACOB HENRY, BART., eldest son of Sir Edward Astley, Bart., MP, Melton Constable, Norfolk, and his first wife Rhoda, eldest dau. of Sir Francis Blake Delaval (qv); b. 12 Sep 1756; adm. 25 Feb 1765; left Dec 1774; Trin. Coll. Camb., adm. fellow commoner 26 Feb 1776, did not matr.; MP Norfolk 15 Nov 1797 -1806, and from 4 Mar 1807; succ. his father as 5th baronet 27 Mar 1802; inherited the Seaton Delaval estates on the death of his uncle Edward Hussey Delaval (qv); m. 14 Jan 1789 Hester, dau. of Samuel Brown, King’s Lynn, Norfolk; d. 28 Apr 1817.