Colonel George Charles Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan GCVO, KBE, CB, PC, TD, DL (13 December 1860 – 20 April 1949), styled Lord Bingham from 1888 to 1914, was a British soldier and Conservative politician.
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Lucan was the son of Charles Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan, and Lady Cecilia Catherine Gordon-Lennox.[1] He was educated at Harrow, and later at Sandhurst.
Lucan was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in 1881, retiring with the rank of Captain in 1896. In 1900 he joined the 1st London Rifle Volunteers as a Major, rising to the rank of Colonel.
Lucan was briefly a Member of Parliament for the Chertsey constituency in Surrey as a member of the Conservative Party. He was elected in a by-election on 7 July 1904, and defeated in the 1906 general election by the Liberal candidate F. J. Marnham. In August 1914 he was elected an Irish Representative Peer. He served under David Lloyd George, Andrew Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1920 to 1924 and under Baldwin from 1924 to 1929. The latter year he was appointed Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, a post he held until the government fell later that year, and again in the National Government from 1931 to 1940. He was also a Deputy Lieutenant of County Mayo and Middlesex.
Lord Lucan married Violet Sylvia Blanche Spender Clay, with whom he had four children:[1]
Lord Lucan died in April 1949, aged 88, and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son George, who in contrast to his father became a Labour politician. The Dowager Lady Lucan died in 1972.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by John Arthur Fyler |
Member of Parliament for Chertsey 1904 – 1906 |
Succeeded by Francis John Marnham |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by The Earl of Onslow |
Lord-in-Waiting 1920 – 1929 |
Succeeded by The Lord Templemore |
| Preceded by The Earl of Plymouth |
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms 1929 |
Succeeded by The Earl of Cavan |
| Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords 1929 |
Succeeded by The Earl De La Warr |
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| Preceded by The Earl of Cavan |
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms 1931 – 1940 |
Succeeded by The Lord Snell |
| Preceded by The Lord Marley |
Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords 1931 – 1940 |
Succeeded by The Lord Templemore |
| Peerage of Ireland | ||
| Preceded by Charles Bingham |
Earl of Lucan 1914 – 1949 |
Succeeded by George Bingham |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| New creation | Baron Bingham 1934 – 1949 |
Succeeded by George Bingham |