George Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan

George Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan

Colonel George Charles Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan GCVO, KBE, CB, PC, TD, DL (13 December 1860 – 20 April 1949), known as Lord Bingham from 1888 to 1914, was a British Conservative politician.

Lucan was the son of Charles Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan, and Lady Cecilia Catherine Gordon-Lennox. [http://www.thepeerage.com/p5245.htm#i52445 The Peerage] ] He was briefly a Member of Parliament for the Chertsey constituency in Surrey, representing the Conservative Party. He was elected in a by-election on 7 July 1904, and defeated in the 1906 general election by the Liberal candidate F. J. Marnham. In August 1914 he was elected an Irish Representative Peer. He served under David Lloyd George, Andrew Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1920 to 1924 and under Baldwin from 1924 to 1929. The latter year he was appointed Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (Chief Whip in the House of Lords), a post he held until the government fell later that year, and again in the National Government from 1931 to 1940.

Lucan was educated at Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in 1881, retiring with the rank of Captain in 1896. In 1900 he joined the 1st London Rifle Volunteers as a Major, rising to the rank of Colonel.

Lord Lucan married Violet Sylvia Blanche Clay, with whom he had four children:

* George Charles Patrick Bingham, 6th Earl of Lucan (24 November 1898-1964)
* Lady Barbara Violet Bingham (born 17 August 1902)
* Hon. John Edward Bingham (29 February 1904-1992)
* Lady Margaret Bingham (16 September 1905-17 August 1977)

Lord Lucan died in April 1949, aged 88, and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son George, who in contrast to his father became a Labour politician. Lady Lucan died in 1972.

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