Viv Bingham

Vivian Bingham (born April 1932), known as Viv Bingham, is a British political activist.

Bingham grew up in Alnwick, before studying at New College, Oxford. He worked as a personnel director,[1] then as a company managing director and management consultant.[2]

Long a Liberal Party activist, Bingham stood in Heywood and Royton in the February and October 1974 general elections, then in Hazel Grove in 1979, and West Derbyshire in 1983, as well as Cheshire East at the 1979 1979 to the European Parliament, but was never elected.[2]

Bingham was a supporter of unilateral nuclear disarmament, and a leading figure in Liberal CND.[3] From 1981 to 1982, he served as President of the Liberal Party.[4] He was subsequently awarded the OBE, and at the 2005 general election stood for the Liberal Democrats in Stalybridge and Hyde.[5]

References

  1. ^ The Times Guide to the House of Commons (1974), p.148
  2. ^ a b The Times Guide to the House of Commons, June 1983, p.93
  3. ^ Michael Clarke and Mo Mowlam, Debate on disarmament, p.7
  4. ^ John Minnion and Philip Bolsover, The CND Story, p.138
  5. ^ "Stalybridge and Hyde", Tameside Advertiser, 14 April 2005
Party political offices
Preceded by
Richard Holme		 President of the Liberal Party
1981–1982		 Succeeded by
John Griffiths