[2] Bermingham was born 20 August 1940 in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at Cotton College, Wellingborough Grammar School and Sheffield University, where he obtained a degree in law.
He was admitted as a solicitor in 1967, and was called to the Bar (Gray's Inn) in 1985.
He contested South East Derbyshire in 1979, but was defeated by the incumbent Conservative Peter Rost.
[3] On his retirement, he was succeeded by Shaun Woodward, a Conservative defector, who swapped his old seat of Witney to represent the ultra-safe St Helens South.
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