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Francis Richard Bingham

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Major-General The Honourable

Sir Francis Bingham
Born5 July 1863
Died5 November 1935 (1935-11-06) (aged 72)
London
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Service / branch British Army
Years of service1883-1929
RankMajor-General
Battles / warsWorld War I
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Spouse(s)Kathleen Clarke (m. 1896-1935; his death); 1 child

Major-General Honourable Sir Francis Richard Bingham, KCB, KCMG, JP (5 July 1863 – 5 November 1935) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.

Military career

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Bingham was a younger son of Charles Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan (1830–1914) by his wife Lady Cecilia Catherine Gordon-Lennox (1838–1919), daughter of the 5th Duke of Richmond.[1] He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery as a lieutenant on 28 July 1883,[2] and was appointed Aide-de-camp to the General Officer Commanding 3rd Infantry Brigade at Aldershot in 1889. Promoted to captain on 15 August 1892, he was attached to the Egyptian Army in 1893.[2][3]

He became Aide-de-camp to the Commander-in-Chief, Madras later that year, and then Adjutant of the Prince of Wales Own Norfolk Artillery in 1899, with the rank of major on 13 February 1900.[4] In 1911 he became Chief Instructor at the School of Gunnery.[2] He served in World War I as deputy director of Artillery at the War Office and then as a Member of Ministry of Munitions Council.[2] After the War he became Chief of the British Section and President of Sub-Commission for Armaments and Material for the Military Inter-Allied Commission of Control in Germany.[2] He became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey in 1924 and retired 1929.[2] He was awarded a gold watch and cheque in appreciation of his service.[5]

In retirement he became a Justice of the Peace in Buckinghamshire.[1]

Personal life

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In 1896 he married Kathleen Clarke; the couple had one child. Kathleen, Lady Bingham, died on 18 September 1963.[1] Bingham was chairman of Our Dumb Friends' League.[6] He resigned in 1930.[6] He opened a dog cemetery in Jersey.[7]

He died in a London nursing home in 1935, aged 72.[8]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c The Peerage.com
  2. ^ a b c d e f Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
  3. ^ Hart′s Army list, 1901
  4. ^ "No. 27170". The London Gazette. 2 March 1900. p. 1433.
  5. ^ "Jersey's Gifts to Sir Francis and Lady Bingham". Gloucester Journal. 25 May 1929. p. 5.
  6. ^ a b "Without A Leader: Predicament of Our Dumb Friends' League". The Shields Daily News. 29 July 1930. p. 3.
  7. ^ "Dog Cemeteries". The Edinburgh Evening News. 24 September 1928. p. 4.
  8. ^ "Sir Francis Bingham". Western Mail & South Wales News. 6 November 1935. p. 6.
Government offices
Preceded by Lieutenant Governor of Jersey
1924–1929 		Succeeded by
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