Lord bingham biography
Thomas Henry Bingham was the most prominent judicial figure in England & Wales in the last years of the 20th Century and the opening decade of the 21st. He was the first Judge to hold (in succession) the three major offices of Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice, and Senior Law Lord. He would have been President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom too, if compulsory retirement had not ended his twenty-eight year judicial career twelve months before the Court heard its first case.
Like Lord Denning, a judicial giant from an earlier era, Bingham was always known as "Tom". He was born in a London nursing home, and brought up in Surrey, where both of his parents practised as doctors. His father, another Thomas Henry, was originally from Northern Ireland. His mother, Catherine, had been born in America. Her family had migrated to England via the Isle of Man. After attending a local preparatory school, Bingham won a scholarship to Sedbergh, in Cumbria. The school was situated in rugged country on the western fringes of the Yorkshire Dales, and placed great emphasis on physical resilience. Pupils were subjected to a programme of all-weather cross-country runs, rugby and other outdoor team games, and cold baths. Bingham generally tolerated rather than enjoyed this aspect of school life, although he did acquire a lifelong love of hill walking. By contrast, he excelled at the academic side, particularly in history. By the time he left, Bingham was being spoken of as the cleverest pupil Sedbergh had ever had. He won a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, where he planned to study philosophy, politics, and economics. First, however, he was obliged to perform two years of National Service. While waiting for orders, Bingham worked on a construction gang building Gatwick Airport's second runway.
Sedbergh School, viewed from the Cumbrian fells in which Bingham acquired his love of hill walking.
He was commissioned as a junior officer in the Roy British judge (1933–2010) "Lord Bingham" redirects here. For other people known by that title, see Lord Bingham (disambiguation). Thomas Henry Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill (13 October 1933 – 11 September 2010) was a British judge who was successively Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice and Senior Law Lord. On his death in 2010, he was described as the greatest judge of his generation.Baroness Hale of Richmond observed that his pioneering role in the formation of the United Kingdom Supreme Court may be his most important and long-lasting legacy.The Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers regarded Bingham as "one of the two great legal figures of my lifetime in the law" (the other figure, in context, being Lord Denning).Lord Hope of Craighead described Bingham as "the greatest jurist of our time". After retiring from the judiciary in 2008, Bingham focused on teaching, writing, and lecturing on legal subjects, particularly the law of human rights. His book, The Rule of Law, was published in 2010 and he was posthumously awarded the 2011 Orwell Prize for literature. The British Institute of International and Comparative Law named the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law in his honour. Bingham was born at Marylebone in London. His parents, Thomas Henry (1901–1981) and Catherine Bingham (née Watterson; 1903–1989), practised as doctors in Reigate, Surrey. His father was born in Belfast, a kinsman of the Earls of Lucan; his mother was from California before being raised on the Isle of Man. He was educated at The Hawthorns prep school at Bletchingley, Surrey, where he was Head Boy, and then from 1947 the Cumbrian public school Sedbergh School (Winder House), where he was described as the "brightest boy in 100 years". He enjoyed history, took up fell-walking, and developed a strong attachment to Ensign 6 Ft. 1816; ensign and lt. 8 Ft. 1818, half-pay 1818; lt. 8 Ft. 1820; capt. 74 Ft. 1822; capt. 1 Life Gds. 1822; maj. 17 Drag. 1825, lt.-col. 1826, half-pay 1837, brevet col. 1841; maj.-gen. 1851; col. 8 Drag. 1855; col. 1 Life Gds. 1865-d.; lt.-gen. 1858; gen. 1865; f.m. 1887. Rep. peer [I] 1840-d.; gold stick in waiting 1886. Ld. lt. and custos rot. co. Mayo 1845-d. The Binghams, descendants of the sixteenth century military marshal of Ireland Sir Richard Bingham, had intermittently represented county Mayo in the Irish Parliament since settling at Castlebar House in the early 1600s. Bingham’s Whig grandfather Charles had sat for Mayo, 1761-76, and Northampton, 1782-4, before being created earl of Lucan in 1795. His father represented St. Albans, 1790-1800, succeeded as 2nd earl in 1799 and was elected an Irish representative peer the following year, when the Castlebar estate was estimated to provide an annual income of £10,000.1 Bingham entered the army at the age of 16 and Captain Gronow recalled him as one of ‘the English persons of note who usually met at Tortoni’s’ in Paris during the 1820s.2 In September 1822 the 2nd marquess of Sligo, whose family had dominated the politics of county Mayo since the Union, was warned by his uncle Denis Browne* that the offer to become patron of a savings bank in Mayo in ‘conjunction’ with Bingham, an ‘honorary member’, and hi British peer and missing murder suspect "Lord Lucan" redirects here. For other holders of the title, see Earl of Lucan. For the current Lord Lucan, see George Bingham, 8th Earl of Lucan. The Right Honourable The Earl of Lucan Lucan with his wife, Veronica, in 1963 Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (born 18 December 1934 – disappeared 8 November 1974, declared dead 3 February 2016), commonly known as Lord Lucan, was a British peer and gambler who vanished in 1974 after being suspected of killing his children's nanny and attempting to murder his wife. An evacuee during World War II, Lucan attended Eton College and served with the Coldstream Guards in West Germany from 1953 to 1955. Having developed a taste for gambling, he played backgammon and bridge, and was an early member of the exclusive group of wealthy British gamblers at the Clermont Club. Lucan's losses often exceeded his winnings, yet he left his job at a London-based merchant bank and became a professional gambler. He was known as Lord Bingham Tom Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill
Early life
BINGHAM, George Charles, Lord Bingham (1800-1888).
Family and Education
b. 16 Apr. 1800, 1st s. of Richard Bingham†, 2nd earl of Lucan [I], and Lady Elizabeth Belayse, da. and coh. of Henry, 3rd Earl Fauconberg, div. w. of Bernard Edward Howard, 12th duke of Norfolk. educ. Westminster 1812-14. m. 21 Feb. 1829, Lady Anne Brudenell, da. and coh. of Robert, 6th earl of Cardigan, 2s. 4da. d.v.p. suc. fa. as 3rd earl of Lucan [I] 30 June 1839; KCB 5 July 1855; GCB 2 June 1869. d. 10 Nov. 1888.Offices Held
Biography
John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan
Other titles Born Richard John Bingham
(1934-12-18)18 December 1934
Marylebone, London, EnglandDisappeared 8 November 1974 (aged 39)
Uckfield, East Sussex, EnglandStatus Declared dead in absentia on (1999-10-27)27 October 1999, with an official death certificate being issued on (2016-02-03)3 February 2016 Other names Lucky Lucan Occupations Title 7th Earl of Lucan Predecessor George Bingham, 6th Earl Successor George Bingham, 8th Earl Spouse Children 3, including George, 8th Earl of Lucan, and Camilla Bloch Father George Bingham, 6th Earl of Lucan Allegiance United Kingdom Service / branch British Army Years of service 1953–1955 Rank Second lieutenant Unit Coldstream Guards