British peer, soldier and politician (1898?1964)
George Charles Patrick Bingham
Lord Bingham
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Other name(s)
| 6th Earl of Lucan
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Born
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1898-11-24
)
24 November 1898
London
, England
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Died
| 21 January 1964
(1964-01-21)
(aged 65)
London
, England
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Allegiance
| Second Lieutenant
during
World War I
.
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Service/
branch
| Coldstream Guards
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Rank
| Deputy Director for Ground Defence
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Service number
| 10428
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Unit
| Air Ministry
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Commands held
| 1st Battalion of the regiment from 1940 to 1942 during the
Second World War
.
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Spouse(s)
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Kaitlin Elizabeth Anne Dawson
(
m.
1929)
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Children
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- Lady Jane Bingham (born 13 October 1932) m. 1960 James Driscol Griffin and had one daughter, three sons.
- Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan
(born 18 December 1934, disappeared November 1974), and had three children, Frances,
George
, and
Camilla
.
- Lady Sarah Bingham (born 5 September 1936) m. 1958
Rev.
William Gibbs and had three daughters, one son.
- Hon.
Hugh Bingham (24 April 1939 ? July 2018, South Africa)
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Other work
| House of Lords
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George Charles Patrick Bingham, 6th Earl of Lucan
MC
(24 November 1898 ? 21 January 1964), known as
Lord Bingham
from 1914 to 1949, was an
Irish peer
, British soldier and
Labour
politician. He was a maternal first cousin of
Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer
, paternal grandmother of
Diana, Princess of Wales
.
Early life
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Pat Lucan was the eldest son of
the 5th Earl of Lucan
and his wife, Violet Sylvia Blanche, daughter of J. Spender Clay. He was educated at
Eton College
and at the
Royal Military College Sandhurst
.
Military career
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He entered Sandhurst, from where he was commissioned as a
second lieutenant
into the
Coldstream Guards
, during
World War I
.
[1]
Remaining in the army, he attended the
Staff College, Camberley
.
[2]
He was a
colonel
and commanded the 1st Battalion of the regiment from 1940 to 1942 during the
Second World War
. From 1942 to 1945 he was Deputy Director for Ground Defence in the
Air Ministry
.
House of Lords
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He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1949 and took his seat on the
Labour
benches in the
House of Lords
. Lord Lucan served under
Clement Attlee
as
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
(Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords) from 1950 to 1951 and as
Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations
in 1951. Between 1954 and 1964 he was Chief Opposition Whip in the House of Lords.
Marriage and children
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Lord Lucan was married on 23 December 1929 to Kaitlin Elizabeth Anne Dawson, daughter of Captain
Hon.
Edward Stanley Dawson, second son of
Richard Dawson, 1st Earl of Dartrey
. They had two sons and two daughters:
- Lady Jane Bingham (born 13 October 1932) m. 1960 James Driscol Griffin and had one daughter, three sons.
- Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan
(born 18 December 1934, disappeared November 1974), and had three children, Frances,
George
, and
Camilla
.
- Lady Sarah Bingham (born 5 September 1936) m. 1958
Rev.
William Gibbs and had three daughters, one son.
- Hon.
Hugh Bingham (24 April 1939 ? July 2018, South Africa)
Lucan died on 21 January 1964, aged 65 resident at 11 Hanover House, Regents Park, London. His free assets were sworn by the
Dowager
Lady Lucan, who died in 1985, as £53,479.
[3]
His stake in family settled land was sworn by Coutts to be a further £41,000. These sums were equivalent to £2,418,000 in 2023.
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His widow retained few assets on her death and her estate was sworn for probate in 1986 as £115,376 (equivalent to £427,000 in 2023), when she lived at her son-in-law's vicarage.
[4]
He was succeeded in the earldom and a managed share in the settled estates by his eldest son, who made great gambling losses, was legally presumed to have murdered his children's nanny and suddenly disappeared from the scene in 1974.
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