Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-HBoase, Frederic
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Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H
Boase, Frederic
Great Britain -- Biography -- Dictionaries
BINGHAM, REV. RICHARD (_son of Rev. Isaac Moody Bingham, R. of
Runwell, Essex who d. 1807_). _b._ 1 April 1765; ed. at Winchester
and New coll. Ox., fellow, B.A. 1787, B.C.L. 1801; P.C. of Trinity
church, Gosport 1790 to death; V. of Great Hale, Lincs. 1796 to
death; preb. of Chichester cathedral 22 July 1807 to death;
sentenced to 6 months imprisonment in county gaol at Winchester 26
Nov. 1813 for having illegally obtained a license for a public
house when no such house was in existence; published by
subscription third ed. of Joseph Bingham’s _Origines
Ecclesiasticæ_ 1829. _d._ Newhouse, Gosport 18 July 1858.
_Proceedings in a trial, the King against Rev. Richard Bingham_
1814.
BINGHAM, REV. RICHARD (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 1798; ed.
at Magd. hall Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1827; C. of Trinity church,
Gosport 1821–43; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Harwood, Bolton 1844–52; C. of
St. Mary’s Marylebone 1853–56; P.C. of Queenborough, Kent 1856–70;
edited _The works of the Rev. Joseph Bingham 10 vols., Clarendon
Press Oxford_ 1855; author of _Liturgia Recusa or suggestions for
revising the services of the United church of England and Ireland_
1860; _Liturgiæ recusæ exemplar, The Prayer book as it might be_
1863; _The Gospel according to Isaiah_ 1870; _Hymnologia
Christiana Latina_ 1871. _d._ Sutton, Surrey 22 Jany. 1872.
BINGHAM, RICHARD CAMDEN. _b._ 2 May 1801; chargé d´affaires at
Venezuela 23 Nov. 1852 to 31 Aug. 1858. _d._ 23 Jany. 1872.
BINNEY, EDWARD WILLIAM. _b._ Morton, Notts. 1812; solicitor at
Manchester 1836; conducted the case for the Claimant in the great
Chadwick law suit Nov. 1847; a paraffin oil manufacturer in
Scotland; chief founder and sec. of Manchester geological society
Oct. 1838, pres. 1857–59 and 1865–67, contributed 33 papers to the
Transactions 1839–72; member of Manchester literary and
philosophical society Jan. 1842, president to death; F.G.S. 1853,
F.R.S. 5 June 1856; possessed the most exact knowledge of coal
fields of Lancashire and Cheshire and of the geology of the whole
district. _d._ Cheetham hill, Manchester 19 Dec. 1881. _Trans. of
Geol. Soc. of Manchester xvi_, 256–59 (1882); _Proc. of Manchester
Lit. and Philos. Soc. xxi_, 142–48 (1882).
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