Richard Bingham, 2nd Earl of Lucan

Richard Bingham, 2nd Earl of Lucan (4 December 1764 – 30 June 1839),[1] styled The Honourable from 1776 to 1795 and subsequently Lord Bingham until 1799, was an Irish peer and Tory politician.

Richard, 2nd Earl of Lucan (Adélaïde-Félicité Hoguer, 1819)

Background

He was the only son of Charles Bingham, 1st Earl of Lucan, and his wife Margaret Smith, daughter of Sir James Smith.[2] Bingham was educated at The Royal College of St Peter in Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford.[3] In 1799, he succeeded his father as earl.[4]

Career

Bingham entered the British House of Commons for St Albans in 1790, representing the constituency until 1800.[5] After the Act of Union in the following year, he sat as representative peer in the House of Lords from 1802 until his death in 1839.[6]

Family

On 26 May 1794, he married Lady Elizabeth Belasyse, third daughter of Henry Belasyse, 2nd Earl Fauconberg and former wife of Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk, and had by her five daughters and two sons.[7] They separated in 1804. Bingham died, aged 74 at his residence at Serpentine Terrace, Knightsbridge[6] and was succeeded in his titles by his older son George.[8] His second son Richard Camden Bingham was a diplomat.[6] His eldest daughter, Elizabeth, married George Harcourt.

He was acquainted with the novelist Jane Austen, who in a letter dated 8 February 1807 reported that "Lord Lucan has taken a mistress."[9]

References
  1. "Leigh Rayment - Peerage". Archived from the original on 8 June 2008. Retrieved 19 June 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. Lodge, John (1789). Mervyn Archdall (ed.). The Peerage of Ireland or A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom. Vol. ViI. Dublin: James Moore. pp. 107–108.
  3. "ThePeerage - Richard Bingham, 2nd Earl of Lucan". Retrieved 19 June 2009.
  4. Lodge, Edmund (1838). The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage (6th ed.). London: Saunder and Otley. pp. 309.
  5. "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, St Albans". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 19 June 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  6. Sylvanus, Urban (1839). The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. part II. London: William Pickering; John Bowyer Nichols and Son. p. 310.
  7. Debrett, John (1828). Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. II (17th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. pp. 712–713.
  8. Lodge, Edmund (1859). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (28th ed.). London: Hurst and Blackett. p. 373.
  9. Letters of Jane Austen
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