Francis Bingham

Major-General The Honourable

Sir Francis Bingham

KCB KCMG JP
Born5 July 1863
Died5 November 1935(1935-11-05) (aged 72)
London
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Branch
 British Army
Service years
1883–1929
Rank
Major-General
Conflicts
World War I
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Spouses
Kathleen Clarke
​
(m. 1896)​
; 1 child
RelationsSir Cecil Bingham (brother)

Major-General 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

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][3] 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,[4] he was attached to the Egyptian Army in 1893.[3][5]

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.[6] In 1911 he became Chief Instructor at the School of Gunnery.[3]

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.[3] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in June 1915.[7]

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.[3] He became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey in 1924 and retired 1929.[3] He was awarded a gold watch and cheque in appreciation of his service.[8]

In retirement he became a justice of the peace in Buckinghamshire.[1]

Personal life

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.[9] He resigned in 1930.[9] He opened a dog cemetery in Jersey.[10]

He died in a London nursing home in 1935, aged 72.[11]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 The Peerage.com
  2. ↑ "No. 25258". The London Gazette. 10 August 1883. p. 3965.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
  4. ↑ "No. 26325". The London Gazette. 13 September 1892. p. 5213.
  5. ↑ Hart′s Army list, 1901
  6. ↑ "No. 27170". The London Gazette. 2 March 1900. p. 1433.
  7. ↑ "No. 29180". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 June 1915. p. 5326.
  8. ↑ "Jersey's Gifts to Sir Francis and Lady Bingham". Gloucester Journal. 25 May 1929. p. 5.
  9. 1 2 "Without A Leader: Predicament of Our Dumb Friends' League". The Shields Daily News. 29 July 1930. p. 3.
  10. ↑ "Dog Cemeteries". The Edinburgh Evening News. 24 September 1928. p. 4.
  11. ↑ "Sir Francis Bingham". Western Mail & South Wales News. 6 November 1935. p. 6.
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