Sir Edward Henry Charles Patrick Bellingham, 5th Baronet, CMG, DSO, DL (26 January 1879 – 19 May 1956)[1] was an Anglo-Irish soldier, politician, and diplomat.
[4] He fought with his regiment in the Second Boer War and was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal.
[5] He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1916 and promoted to Major in 1917, while serving as temporary Brigadier-General,[6][7] having been appointed to command 118th Brigade on 3 February.
[14] In 1925, he was elected to the Free State Seanad Éireann with the ninth highest number of first preference votes nationwide of the 76 candidates, and he sat there until its abolition in 1936.
[5] On 11 June 1904, he married Charlotte Elizabeth; she was the daughter of Alfred Payne and widow of Frederick Gough.