Sir Edward Henry Charles Patrick Bellingham, 5th Baronet, (26 January 1879 – 19 May 1956)
[ was an Anglo-Irish soldier, politician, and diplomat.
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Background and education
Bellingham was the eldest son of Sir Henry Bellingham, 4th Baronet
Sir Alan Henry Bellingham, 4th Baronet, (23 August 1846 – 9 June 1921) was an Anglo-Irish Conservative Member of Parliament. He was Justice of the Peace, High Sheriff of Louth and Lord Lieutenant of Louth. He was Senator of the Royal Unive ...
and his wife, Lady Constance Noel, the second daughter of Charles Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough
Charles George Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough (5 September 1818 – 13 August 1881), styled Viscount Campden between 1841 and 1866, was a British peer and Whig politician.
Background
Gainsborough was the only child of Charles Noel, 1st Earl ...
.[Fox-Davies (1929), p. 132] He was educated at The Oratory School
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and went then to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
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. In 1921, he succeeded his father as baronet.[
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Career
In 1899, Bellingham was commissioned as Ensign
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into the Royal Scots
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. He fought with his regiment in the Second Boer War
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and was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal
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.[ In 1902 he received the ]King's South Africa Medal
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together with three clasps.[ During the ]First World War
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, Bellingham was wounded and mentioned in despatches
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three times.[ He was awarded the ]Distinguished Service Order
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in 1916 and promoted to Major
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in 1917, while serving as temporary Brigadier-General, having been appointed to command 118th Brigade on 3 February.[Becke, p. 92.] He commanded the brigade during the Third Battle of Ypres
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in July–November that year. In the 1918 New Year Honours
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, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
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. He and his Brigade major
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were taken prisoner on 28 March 1918 while commanding a rearguard during the confusion of the 'Great Retreat
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'.[ After the ]Armistice
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he was promoted to Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel. He retired in 1922.
Resident at Castlebellingham
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, County Louth
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, Bellingham was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Louth in 1921, a post he held for only one year until the establishment of the Irish Free State
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. In 1925, he was elected to the Free State Seanad Éireann with the ninth highest number of first preference votes nationwide of the 76 candidates, and he sat there until its abolition in 1936.
With the outbreak of the Second World War
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, Bellingham joined the Royal Air Force
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.[ He was appointed as a ]Flying Officer
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in 1941 and later was a Squadron Leader
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in the RAF Regiment
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.[ After the war he served in the Commission of Control in Germany until 1947.][ In his last years he was vice-consul at the British embassy in ]Guatemala
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Personal life
Bellingham was a breeder of pedigree pigs and Aberdeen Angus
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cattle.[Who's Who (1951), p. 213] On 11 June 1904, he married Charlotte Elizabeth; she was the daughter of Alfred Payne and widow of Frederick Gough.[ They had an only daughter.][ Bellingham died in 1956 and was survived by his wife, who died in 1964.][Burke (2003), p. 338] He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his nephew, Roger.[Who was Who (1961), p. 90]
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1879 births
1956 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain
Edward
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People from Castlebellingham
Alumni of Oratorian schools
Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Royal Scots officers
British Army personnel of the Second Boer War
British Army generals of World War I
British Army brigadiers
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Lord-lieutenants of Louth
Politicians from County Louth
Independent members of Seanad Éireann
Members of the 1925 Seanad
Members of the 1928 Seanad
Members of the 1931 Seanad
Members of the 1934 Seanad
Royal Air Force officers
Royal Air Force Regiment officers
Royal Air Force personnel of World War II