Dillon family group including Lord Clonbrock and Lord and Lady Clanmorris

John George Barry Bingham, 5th Baron Clanmorris DL, JP (27 August 1852 – 4 November 1916), was an Irish peer.

Early life

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. He was educated at

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Career

In 1876, aged 23, he succeeded his father in the barony. This was an

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and did not entitle him to a seat in the

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. Lord Clanmorris was an aide-de-camp to the

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between 1876 and 1878 and served as a Deputy Lieutenant of

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and as a Justice of the Peace for

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and

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. Lord Clanmorris lived mainly at Cregclare,

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, though with addresses in

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, London and

. 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

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, including gentleman's and yacht clubs.

Personal life

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, including: * Hon. Harriette Ierne Maude Bingham (1882–1917), who married Sir Herbert Lightfoot Eason in 1908, parents of Diana Clare Eason. * Hon.

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was a

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in the

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. * Hon. Emily Ina Florence Bingham, who married Herbert Dixon 1st Baron of Glentoran. Lord Clanmorris died at Bangor Castle,

, in November 1916, aged 64. Lord Clanmorris was succeeded by his eldest son, Arthur. Lady Clanmorris died at Bangor Castle in February 1941, aged 82.

References

* ''Claregalway Parish History - 750 Years'', Galway, 1999 * ''In Their Own Words: The Parish of

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and its People'', ed. Liz Blackmore, John Cronin, Donal Ferrie and Brid Higgins,

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, 2001. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Clanmorris, John Bingham, 5th Baron 1852 births 1916 deaths Nobility from County Galway Barons in the Peerage of Ireland People educated at Eton College Deputy lieutenants of Mayo

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