1790, or more probably in 1788 or 1789 (Preface to Proceedings, &c. 8vo, London, 1814, p. vi., and Proceedings, &c. p. 174 &c.), he was appointed to the perpetual curacy of Trinity Church, Gosport; in 1796 he became vicar of Great Hale, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire, and was appointed, 22 July 1807, in succession to his father, to the prebendal stall of Bargham in Chichester Cathedral. In 1813, being then a magistrate for Hampshire of twelve years' standing, he was convicted at the Winchester summer assizes of having illegally obtained a license for a public-house, when no such public-house was in existence, and of having stated, in the conveyance of such house, a false consideration of the same, with intent to defraud the revenue by evading an additional stamp duty of 10l. (Annual Register, 1813). On 10 Nov. 1813 a motion was made in the King's Bench for a new trial on behalf of the defendant, He was brought up for judgment on the 26th of the same month, and in spite of many affidavits to his character was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the county gaol at Winchester. In an appeal to public opinion dated 23 Dec. 1813, Bingham asserted his innocence with the most vehement deprecations. The appeal is embodied in the Preface to 'Proceedings in a Trial, The King, on the Prosecution of James Cooper, against the Rev. Richard Bingham, and on a Motion for a new Trial, and on the Defendant's being brought up for Judgment. Taken in shorthand by Mr. Gurney. With explanatory Preface and Notes and an Appendix,' 8vo, London, 1814. In 1829 Mr. Bingham published, by subscription, the third edition of the 'Origines Ecclesiasticæ' of his ancestor. He reprinted all the contents of the old octavo and folio editions, introducing into the notes some further references from the author's manuscript annotations in a private copy of his own book, and adding for the first time an impression of the author's three 'Trinity Sermons,' besides prefixing a 'Life of the Author, by his Great-grandson.' The bankruptcy of the printer while the work was passing through the press caused much delay in its distribution (Prolegomena, &c. p. x). Bingham died at his residence of Newhouse on the beach at Gosport, on Sunday, 18 July 1858, and was buried on Tuesday, the 27th of the same month, in the vaults of Trinity Church, in the presence of a very large number of his friends and parishioners.
[Graduati Cantabrigienses. 4to, Cambridge, 1787; Gent. Mag. March 1807. April 1847. and September 1858; Le Neve's Fasti; Proceedings, &c. London, 1814; Annual Register. 1813; Origines Ecclesiastiæ, London. 1829; Miss Bingham's Short Poems, Bolton, 1848; Hampshire Telegraph, 24 and 31 July 1868.]
BINGHAM, RICHARD, the younger (1798–1872), divine, was the eldest son of Richard Bingham the elder [q. v.] He was born in 1798, and was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, where he became B.A. 1821, M.A. 1827. He was ordained deacon in 1821, and priest in 1822, and became curate to his father in his incumbency of Holy Trinity Church, Gosport. Here he remained for over twenty-two years. He married, 4 May 1824, Frances Campbell, daughter of the late J. Barton, Esq., of Mount Pleasant, Jamaica' (Gent. Mag. June 1824), and took pupils. He published by subscription two small volumes of sermons in 1826 and 1827, and in 1829 'The Warning Voice, or an awakening Question for all British Protestants in general, and Members of the Church of England in particular, at the present Juncture.' He seceded from the British and Foreign Bible Society, on account of its readiness to cooperate with Socinians, in 1831, and own after published an account of the circumstances. He issued by subscription a volume of 'Sermons' in 1835, and in 1843 'Immanuel, or God with us, a Series of Lectures on the Divinity and Humanity of our Lord,' 8vo, London, 1843. The preface mentions his desire to bring out a new edition of his ancestor's book. Twelve years afterwards Bingham produced, at the expense of the delegate of the Oxford University Press, the standard edition of 'The Works of the Rev. Joseph Bingham, M.A.,' 10 vols. 8vo, Oxford, 1856. In 1844 he was presented by the trustees to the perpetual curacy of Christ Church, Harwood, Bolton-le-Moors, during his incumbency of which he lost (28 Feb. 1847) his eldest daughter, aged 21, and his youngest son. Miss Bingham had early published 'Hubert, or the Orphans of St. Madelaine, a Legend of the persecuted Vaudois,' London. 1845, and at the time of her death left a considerable number of pieces, which were published by her father in 1848 as 'Short Poems, religious and sentimental,' and passed through two editions. Bingham became in became curate at St. Mary's, Marylebone, the rector of which was John Hampden Gurney, to whom he afterwards dedicated a volume of 'Sermons' in 1858. In 1856 he became vicar of Queenborough in the isle of Sheppey. He vacated this preferment in 1870, and took up his residence at Sutton, Surrey, where he died on Monday, 23 Jan. 1872, at the age of seventy-four. Binghan was a fervid advocate of liturgical revision, and a member of the council of the Prayer
