A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bingham, Parker Duckworth
BINGHAM. (Commander, 1827. f-p., 19; h-p., 17.)
Parker Duckworth Bingham, born 11 April, 1799, is son of the late Rear-Admiral Joseph Bingham; grandson, maternally, of the late Admiral Sir Wm. Parker, Bart., an officer who obtained great celebrity on 1 June, 1794, as Captain of the Audacious 74; nephew of the present Capt. Sir Wm. Geo. Parker, Bart. R.N.; godson of the late Admiral Sir John Thos. Duckworth, K.B.; and first cousin of Commanders H. H. and J. E. Bingham.
This officer entered the Navy, 21 May, 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Egmont 74, commanded by his father, Capt. Joseph Bingham, with whom he participated, as Midshipman, in the operations up the Gironde in 1814, where he witnessed the destruction of a French line-of-battle ship, 3 brigs of war, several smaller vessels, and of all the forts and batteries on the north side of the river. He was next attached for a short period to the Tiber 38, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres, lying in Portsmouth Harbour; then joined the Queen 74, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Rear-Admiral Chas. Vinicombe Penrose; and, on removing to the Albion 74, Capt. John Coode, was present at the battle of Algiers, 27 Aug. 1816, on which occasion he commanded at intervals the mortar and rocket boats, and was slightly wounded in the foot. During his continuance in the Albion, he had the good fortune, twice at sea, and once in port, to save the lives of 3 men, by intrepidly jumping overboard after them. In Oct. 1818, he passed his examination; and, after serving successively in the Myrmidon 22, Capt. Robt. Gambler, Queen Charlotte 104, bearing the flag of Sir Geo. Campbell, Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, Vengeur 74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, and Tartar 42, Capt. Sir Geo. Ralph Collier, was made Lieutenant, 28 April, 1821, into his former ship the Myrmidon, Capt. Hen. John Leeke, on the coast of Africa. While employed in the boats, as First-Lieutenant, at the subsequent capture of two privateer slavers – armed, the one with 4, the other with 16 guns – Mr. Bingham was very severely wounded by a grape-shot, which, entering his left breast, passed along his arm as far as the elbow, and was not extracted until after a lapse of ten days. In consequence of over exertion in afterwards fitting out the two prizes, he brought on a severe attack of fever, and in Dec. of the same year, 1821, was obliged to invalid. On 20 March, 1823, he was appointed to the Revenge 76, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Sir Harry Neale, and, at a later date, of Sir Edw. Codrington, to whom he became Flag-Lieutenant 17 Sept. 1825. He was promoted out of that ship 26 April, 1827; and since 18 Jan. 1842, has been employed as an Inspecting Commander in the Coast Guard.
Commander Bingham married first, m 1833, Emily, eldest daughter of Major Geo. Payne, of Walton, co. Surrey; and secondly, in Nov. 1838, Jane, daughter of the late Col. Delamane, and widow of Capt. W. H. C. Howard, of the Hon. E. I. C.’s European Regiment. He has issue one daughter. Agent – J. Hinxman.