George Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan

Colonel George Charles Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan GCVO KBE CB TD PC DL (13 December 1860 – 20 April 1949), styled Lord Bingham from 1888 to 1914, was a British soldier and Conservative politician.

Lucan was the son of Charles Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan, and Lady Cecilia Catherine Gordon-Lennox. He was educated at Harrow, and later at Sandhurst.

Lucan was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in 1881, retiring with the rank of Captain in 1896. In 1900 he joined the 1st London Rifle Volunteers as a Major, rising to the rank of Colonel.

Lucan was appointed High Sheriff of Mayo for 1902–03.

He was briefly a Member of Parliament for the Chertsey constituency in Surrey as a member of the Conservative Party. He was elected in a by-election on 7 July 1904, and defeated in the United Kingdom general election, 1906 by the Liberal candidate F. J. Marnham. In August 1914 he was elected a Irish Representative Peer. He served under David Lloyd George, Andrew Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1920 to 1924 and under Baldwin from 1924 to 1929. The latter year he was appointed Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, a post he held until the government fell later that year and again in the National Government from 1931 to 1940. He was also a Deputy Lieutenant of County Mayo and Middlesex.

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