John Bingham, 5th Baron Clanmorris, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About John Bingham, 5th Baron Clanmorris
- John George Barry Bingham, 5th Baron Clanmorris DL, JP (27 August 1852 – 4 November 1916), was an Irish peer. Bingham was the son of John Bingham, 4th Baron Clanmorris, by Sarah Selina, daughter of Burton Persse.
- His mother and grandmother were members of the Persse family, making him a cousin of Augusta, Lady Gregory.
- He was educated at Eton.
- In 1876, aged 23, he succeeded his father in the barony.
- This was an Irish peerage and did not entitle him to a seat in the House of Lords.
- Lord Clanmorris was an aide-de-camp to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland between 1876 and 1878 and served as a Deputy Lieutenant of County Mayo and as a Justice of the Peace for County Down and County Galway.Lord Clanmorris lived mainly at Cregclare, Ardrahan, County Galway, though with addresses in Dublin, London and County Mayo.
- His Galway seats were Cregclare and Seamount.
- He owned over three thousand acres (12 km²) in Galway alone, and had paid nineteen thousand for a section of the Lambert family property.
- At the age of twenty-six he was registered a member of eight clubs across the United Kingdom, including gentleman's and yacht clubs.Lord Clanmorris died at Bangor Castle, County Down, in November 1916, aged 64.
- He had married Matilda Catherine Maude, daughter of Robert Edward Ward of Bangor Castle, County Down, in 1878 and had seven sons and three daughters.
- Their third son the Honourable Edward Bingham was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy.
- Lord Clanmorris was succeeded by his eldest son, Arthur.
- Lady Clanmorris died at Bangor Castle in February 1941, aged 82.
- One of his daughters, Ierne, married Herbert Lightfoot Eason in 1908 but died in 1917.
- Eason was later Vice Chancellor of the University of London.
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