Sir_John_Bingham,_5th_Baronet

Sir John Bingham, 5th Baronet

Sir John Bingham, 5th Baronet

Irish politician

Sir John Bingham, 5th Baronet (1690 – 21 September 1749)[1] was an Irish politician.

He was the eldest son of Sir George Bingham, 4th Baronet, and his first wife Mary Scott.[2] Bingham was educated at the Middle Temple.[3] He was appointed High Sheriff of Mayo in 1721[3] and was Governor of County Mayo.[4] In 1727, he entered the Irish House of Commons for County Mayo, the same constituency his father had represented before, and sat for it until his death in 1749.[5] In 1730, he succeeded his father as baronet.[1]

By 1730, he married Anne Vesey, daughter of Agmondisham Vesey[3] and had five daughters and three sons.[2] Bingham died in 1749 and was buried at Castlebar.[3] He was succeeded in the baronetcy successively by his sons John and Charles.[2]

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    "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 17 June 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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    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. p. 107.
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    "ThePeerage - Sir John Bingham, 5th Bt". Retrieved 17 June 2009.
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    Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. II (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 110.
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    "Leigh Rayment - Irish House of Commons 1692-1800". Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 17 June 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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