John Bingham, 4th Baron Clanmorris

John Charles Robert Bingham, 4th Baron Clanmorris (28 November 1826 – 5 April 1876), was an English landowner and aristocrat.

Early life

Bingham was born on 28 November 1826 at Moyode Castle, County Galway. He was the son of Denis Bingham, 3rd Baron Clanmorris and Maria Helena Persse. Among his siblings was Hon. Albert Yelverton Bingham, the Deputy Lieutenant of County Mayo.[1] His paternal grandparents were John Bingham, 1st Baron Clanmorris and Hon. Anna Maria Yelverton (a daughter of the 1st Viscount Avonmore). His maternal grandparents were Robert Persse and Maria Wade.[1]

He was educated at Rugby School, in Warwickshire.[2]

Career

Upon the death of his father on 24 February 1847, he succeeded as the 4th Baron Clanmorris of Newbrook, in the Peerage of Ireland.[1]

Personal life

Lord Clanmorris was married to Sarah Selina Persse (1826–1907), the fourth daughter of Burton de Burgh Persse, High Sheriff of County Galway, and Matilda "Mattie" Persse (a daughter of Henry Stratford Persse).[3] Together, they were the parents of:

  • Hon. Matilda Maria Helena Bingham (1850–1943), who married Albert Brassey, MP for Banbury and son of Thomas Brassey and Maria Farringdon Harrison, in 1871.[4][5]
  • John George Barry Bingham, 5th Baron Clanmorris (1852–1916), who married Matilda Catherine Maude Ward, a daughter of Robert Edward Ward of Bangor Castle and Harriette Ward (a daughter of Rev. Hon. Henry Ward).[3]
  • Hon. Burton Percy Bingham (1853–1898), who married Frances Matilda Persse, a daughter of Burton Robert Parsons Persse and Eliza Madaline Persse, in 1895.[3]
  • Hon. Bentinck Yelverton Bingham (1855–1892), who died unmarried.[3]
  • Hon. Florence Madeline Bingham (1856–1941), who married John Pollok, in 1873. After his death in 1891, she married Maj. James David Barry, son of Charles Robert Barry, the Attorney-General for Ireland, in 1895.[3]
  • Hon. Rose Elizabeth Bingham (1858–1935),[6] who married Maj.-Gen. Sir Hugh McCalmont, MP for North Antrim and son of James McCalmont and Emily Anne Martin, in 1885.[1]

Lord Clanmorris died on 5 April 1876 at Lismany, Ballinasloe, the residence of Allan Pollok, Esq.. He was interred in the cemetery in Cregaclare Demesne, his seat in County Galway, the family burying place of the Clanmorris family.[1]

Descendants

Through his daughter Florence, he was a grandfather of Zara Eileen Pollok (1879–1965), who married Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie.[1]

Through his daughter Matilda, he was a grandfather of Iris Hermione Brassey, who married Brig.-Gen. Malcolm Orme Little, a son of Gen. Sir Archibald Little.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003
  2. ^ G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, page 226.
  3. ^ a b c d e Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999, vol. 1, p. 578.
  4. ^ "No. 32790". The London Gazette. 26 January 1923. p. 617.
  5. ^ L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), p. 39.
  6. ^ "The Honourable Rosie Bingham". www.19thcenturyphotos.com. Library of Nineteenth-Century Photography. Retrieved 19 May 2025.