Sir Edward Bellingham, 5th Baronet

Brigadier-General Sir Edward Henry Charles Patrick Bellingham, 5th Baronet CMG, DSO, DL (26 January 1879 – 19 May 1956) was a British and Irish soldier, politician and finally diplomat.

Bellingham was the eldest son of Sir Alan Henry Bellingham, 4th Baronet and his wife Lady Constance Noel, the second daughter of Charles Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough. He was educated at The Oratory School and went then to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. In 1921, he succeeded his father as baronet.

In 1899, Bellingham was commissioned as ensign into The Royal Scots He fought with his regiment in the Second Boer War and after short time was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal. In 1902 he received the King's South Africa Medal together with three clasps. During the First World War Bellingham was wounded and mentioned in despatches three times. He was decorated with the Distinguished Service Order in 1916 and was promoted to major in 1917, while serving as temporary brigadier-general. In the New Year's Honours 1918, he was invested as a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George and a year later he was advanced to a brevet lieutenant-colonel. He retired in 1922.

Resident at Castlebellingham, County Louth, 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. 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.

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