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| • | George Charles Bingham, Lord Bingham (born 1967), is the only son of the 7th Earl of Lucan, who went missing in 1974.
In 1998, Lord Bingham applied to take his father's seat in the House of Lords. This was not authorised by the Lord Chancellor because there was no definitive proof that the Earl was dead. The following year the High Court ruled that the Earl was indeed dead, allowing his executors to finalise details relating to his estate. However, no death certificate has yet been granted. The resulting curious state of affairs is therefore that, while Lord Bingham may be presumed to be the 8th Earl of Lucan, it is still not officially recognised.
Lord Bingham has pursued a successful career in London in investment banking. He has also written an unpublished book on his father, whom he does not believe was responsible for the death of the family's nanny, Sandra Rivett.
Following the presumed death of the 7th Earl, householders on the family's former estate at Castlebar in Ireland stopped paying ground rents.
The family's connections with Castlebar go back to 1500s, and the 3rd Earl owned 62,000 acres there. The 4th Earl sold the family estate and handed over his cricket pitch, now the town's mall, and other sites for churches and schools to the people of the town. However, the ground rents on most of the properties were retained by the family.
In 1998, it was reported that Lord Bingham was being pressured to give up the family's claim to these ground rents, which represented (were they paid) £30,000 per annum.
Source: [wikipedia: george bingham, lord bingham]
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