BINGHAM, Henry. Second lieut. 60 Rifles 30 April 1827, lieut. col. 19 June 1857 to 1865; inspecting field officer 1865–70; M.G. 6 March 1868. d. Wolverton house, co. Dublin 1 Oct. 1878.
BINGHAM, Peregrine (elder son of Rev. Peregrine Bingham 1754–1826, R. of Edmundesham, Dorset). b. 1788; ed. at Winchester and Magd. coll. Ox., B.A. 1810; barrister M.T. 27 Nov. 1818; recorder of Southampton 5 Nov. 1830 to July 1840; contested Southampton 9 Jany. 1835; police magistrate at Worship st. London 1841, at Great Marlborough st. 1846–60; lived at 35 Gordon square, London 1842 to death; author of The law and practice of judgments and executions 1815; The law of infancy and coverture 1816; A system of shorthand 1821; Reports of cases in Court of Common Pleas and other courts 10 vols. 1824–34; New cases in the Court of Common Pleas and other courts 6 vols. 1835–41; one of chief contributors to Westminster Review, wrote 5 articles in the first number Jany. 1824. d. 35 Gordon sq. London 1 Nov. 1864.
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).
BINNEY, Rev. Thomas. b. Newcastle-on-Tyne April 1798; apprenticed to Mr. Angas of Newcastle, bookseller 1813–20; ed. at Wymondley college Herts 1820–23; minister of the New meeting, Bedford 1823; minister of St. James’s st. chapel Newport, Isle of Wight Aug. 1824 to July 1829; ordained 29 Dec. 1824; minister of King’s Weighhouse Chapel Eastcheap, London July 1829 to 4 July 1869, where foundation stone of new chapel was laid 16 Oct. 1833; went to the United States and Canada 1845 and to Australia 1857; LLD. Univ. of Aberdeen 1852; chairman of Congregational Union of England and Wales 1848; founded the Colonial Missionary Society 1836; author of Illustrations of the practical power of faith 1830, 3 ed. 1856; Conscientious clerical nonconformity 1839, 5 ed. 1860; Is it possible to make the best of both worlds, a book for young men 1853, this book sold at the rate of 100 a day for many months, it was translated into several languages; St. Paul his life and ministry 1866; author of three Letters under pseud. of Fiat Justitia 1831, and of The Great Gorham case 1850, and several other pamphlets under pseud. of John Search; author of a pamphlet called Leicester Gaol by A. Balance, Esq. of the Middle Temple 1841. d. Doric lodge, High road, Upper Clapton 24 Feb. 1874. Sermons by T. Binney second series, edited by Henry Allon (1875) xiii-lxvi, portrait; A memorial of the late Rev. T. Binney, edited by Rev. J. Stoughton 1874; T. Binney, his mind, life and opinions by Rev. E. P. Hood 1874; The lamps of the temple 3 ed. (1865) 146–87; Contemporary Review xxiii, 884–97 (1874); Graphic ix, 218 (1874), portrait. He is introduced as Canon Burney into the novels called The master of Marton 1864 and Diary of a novelist 1870 by Eliza Tabor.
BINNS, Edward. M.D.; author of The anatomy of sleep or the art of procuring sound and refreshing slumber at will 1842; Prodromus towards a philosophical inquiry into the intellectual powers of the negro 1844. d. Lucca, Jamaica 10 Feb. 1851.
BINNS, John (son of Mr. Binns of Dublin, ironmonger who d. 1774). b. Dublin 22 Dec. 1772; apprenticed to a soapboiler 1786; a member of the London Corresponding Society 1794 which became the greatest political association in Great Britain, chairman of its general committee 6 months in 1795; connected with the United Irishmen; left London for France 21 Feb. 1798 but arrested at Margate 27 Feb. and after an examination by the Privy Council committed to Tower of London; tried for high treason at Maidstone May 1798 when acquitted; confined in Clerkenwell prison, then in Gloucester prison till March 1801; sailed for America July 1801; started a newspaper called The Republican Argus at Northumberland, Pennsylvania March 1802; edited at Philadelphia March 1807 to 1829 Democratic Press which soon became leading paper in the state; alderman of Philadelphia Dec. 1822 to 1844. d. Philadelphia 16 June 1860. Recollections of the life of John Binns 1854, portrait.
BINNS, Thomas. Head master of the Friends’ school, Grove house, Tottenham 1828; member of Committee of British and Foreign Bible Society 1852–68, chairman of the Editorial Sub-Committee. d. Rockley near Bristol 2 Dec. 1872 aged 74. Annual Monitor for 1874 6–10.