BINGLEY 177 BILLING The Marquessate of Billing, co. Northampton, was conferred by Privy Seal, 3 May 1645, on Barnabas (O'Brien), 5th Earl of Thomond [I.], but, no patent having ever passed, the dignity was'not assumed by him or the heirs male of his body, which heirs became extinct in 1741. BINDON See "Howard of Bindon, Dorset," Viscountcy {Howard), cr. 1559; extinct 1 6 1 1 . EARLDOM I. 1706. I. Henry (Howard), i/y/^is' (improperly) Lord" Walden, s. and h. ap. of Henry, Earl of Suffolk, was cr., v.p., 30 Dec. 1706, BARON CHESTER- FORD, Essex, and EARL OF BINDON, Dorset. On 10 Nov. 1 709 he sue. his father as Earl of Suffolk. He d. 1 9 Sep. 1 7 1 8. II. 1718 2. Charles William (Howard), Earl OF Suf- to FOLK, Earl of Bindon and Baron Chesterford, 1722. s. and h. He i/. 8 Mar. 172 1/2, /./>., when the Earl- dom of Bindon and the Barony of Chesterford be-, came extinct. 1 n d o r ON o
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3 BINGHAM The style of "Lord Bingham " is used by the family of Bingham, Earls of Lucan [I.] (so cr. 1795), ^^ *he courtesy title of the h. ap. of that Earldom. BINGLEY BARONY I. 1713 to 1731- I. Robert Benson, s. and h. of Robert B., of Wren- thorpe, CO. York (an attorney, " a man of mean extrac- tion"), (^) by Dorothy, da. of Tobias Jenkins, of Grimston, in that co., M.P. (Tory) (") for Thetford 1702-05, and for the city of York 1 705- 1 3, Commissioner of the Treasury Aug. 1710-11, and finally Chancellor of the Exchequer, 14 June 1711-13. On 2 1 July 1 7 13, he was cr. BARON OF BINGLEY, co. York, resigning office I Nov. following. Director of the South Sea Co. i7ii-i5;P.C. 14 June 1 7 II till Sep. 1 7 1 4, restored 1 1 June 1 730, on taking office under Walpole. Ambassador to Madrid for Queen Anne 1 713-14, and Treasurer of () " Mr. Benson is of no extraction. His father was an attorney and no great character for an honest man. . . He has lived very handsomely in the country without being a drinker, though very gallant amongst the ladies." (" Character " by Thomas, Earl of StrafFord, IVentworth Papers,^. 133, ed. 1883). V.G. (*=) He joined the Whigs later in life. V.G. 24
