Richard Bingham, 2nd Earl of Lucan

[2] Bingham was educated at The Royal College of St Peter in Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford.

[3] Bingham entered the British House of Commons for St Albans in 1790, representing the constituency until 1800.

[4] After the Act of Union in the following year, he sat as Irish representative peer in the House of Lords from 1802 until his death in 1839.

Bingham died, aged 74 at his residence at Serpentine Terrace, Knightsbridge[5] and was succeeded in his titles by his older son George.

He was acquainted with the novelist Jane Austen, who in a letter dated 8 February 1807 reported that "Lord Lucan has taken a mistress."