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Barony of Clanmorris| 150px | 180px) | image_size = | alt = | caption = Arms: Azure, a Bend cotised Or, between six Crosses-Pattée Or. Crest: On a Mount, a Falcon rising, all proper. Supporters: On either side a Lion Azure.| creation_date = 31 July 1800 | creation = | George III>King George III | peerage = Peerage of Ireland | baronetage = | John Bingham, 1st Baron Clanmorris>John Bingham | last_holder = | present_holder = Simon John Ward Bingham, 8th Baron Clanmorris | heir_apparent = | heir_presumptive = Robert Derek de Burgh Bingham | remainder_to = the 1st Baron’s heirs male of the body lawfully begotten | subsidiary_titles = | status = Extant | extinction_date = | family_seat = | former_seat = | motto = SPES MEA CHRISTUS |
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Baron Clanmorris, of Newbrook in the County of Mayo, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 6 August 1800 for John Bingham.{{London Gazette |issue=15281 |date=5 August 1800 |page=890}} He was a descendant of John Bingham of Foxford in County Mayo, whose brother Sir Henry Bingham, 1st Baronet, of Castlebar, was the ancestor of the Earls of Lucan. The first Baron’s great-great-great-grandson, the seventh Baron, was a spy and crime novelist (as John Bingham). {{As of|2010}} the title is held by the latter’s son, the eighth Baron, who succeeded in 1988.The Hon. Edward Bingham, a younger son of the fifth Baron won the Victoria Cross for his actions during the battle of Jutland. The novelist Charlotte Bingham is the daughter of the seventh and the sister of the eighth Baron Clanmorris. A granddaughter of the fourth Baron was Zara Pollok, who married Alexander Hore-Ruthven who, as 1st Baron Gowrie, was Governor-General of Australia 1936–44.www.landedestates.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=965" title="web.archive.org/web/20110721125508www.landedestates.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=965">NUI GalwayBarons Clanmorris (1800)(File:Baron Clanmoris tombstones Clonsilla.jpg|thumb|right|Tombstone of Florence Barry, daughter of the 4th Baron)
- John Bingham, 1st Baron Clanmorris (1762–1821)
- Charles Barry Bingham, 2nd Baron Clanmorris (1796–1829)“Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860)” George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p67: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
- Denis Arthur Bingham, 3rd Baron Clanmorris (1808–1847)
- John Charles Robert Bingham, 4th Baron Clanmorris (1826–1876)
- John George Barry Bingham, 5th Baron Clanmorris (1852–1916)
- Arthur Maurice Robert Bingham, 6th Baron Clanmorris (1879–1960)
- John Michael Ward Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris (1908–1988)
- Simon John Ward Bingham, 8th Baron Clanmorris (born 1937)
The heir presumptive and sole heir to the peerage is the present holder’s second cousin Robert Derek de Burgh Bingham (born 1942).BOOK, 2019, Clanmorris, Baron, Morris, Susan, Bosberry-Scott, Wendy, Belfield, Gervase, Debrett’s Peerage and Baronetage, 1, 150th, London, Debrett’s Ltd., 889–891, 978-1-999767-0-5-1, See also
Notes {{Reflist}} References
- BOOK, Hesilrige, Arthur G. M., 1921, Debrett’s Peerage and Titles of courtesy,archive.org/details/debrettspeeraget00unse/page/209, London, Dean & Son, 209,
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett’s Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin’s Press, 1990, {{Page needed |date=February 2013}}
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