BILLING, Richard Annesley. b. 1814; called to bar in Ireland Nov. 1839; practised at Dublin; admitted to bar at Melbourne 23 Oct. 1856; lecturer in law at Melbourne Univ.; Q.C. 1878; county court judge for western division of Victoria April 1882 to death. d. Melbourne 21 June 1882.
BILLINGE, Mary (dau. of Charles Billinge of Eccleston near Prescot). b. Eccleston 6 Nov. 1772. d. Edge lane, Liverpool 20 Dec. 1863 aged 91, but generally reputed to be 112 and so recorded in the 26th report of the Registrar General. W. J. Thoms’s Human longevity (1873) 34–37, 105–13.
BILLINGS, Elkanah (2 son of Bradish Billings, of Gloucester near Ottawa, then called Bytown, farmer). b. Gloucester 5 May 1820; ed. at Ottawa and Potsdam in state of New York; admitted attorney at Toronto 1844; called to bar at Toronto 1845; practised at Ottawa 1845–48, and at Renfrew 1849–52; edited the Citizen paper at Ottawa 1852–55; palæontologist to Geological survey of Canada at Montreal 1 Aug. 1856 to death; visited Europe 1858; F.G.S. April 1858; published the Canadian Naturalist Feb. 1856, edited the first vol. and wrote 55 out of the 63 papers in it; contributed to Silliman’s Journal; presented his fine collection of Star fishes, Cystideans and Crinoids to museum of Geological survey of Canada. d. Montreal 14 June 1876. Canadian Naturalist viii, 251–61 (1878); Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xxxiii, 48–50 (1877).
BILLINGS, Robert William. b. London 1813; pupil of John Britton, topographical draughtsman 1813–20; illustrated Godwin’s History of St. Paul’s Cathedral 1837; Illustrations of the Temple Church, London, 1838; Baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland 240 illustrations 4 vols. 1845–52; restored the chapel of Edinburgh Castle; built Castle Wemyss, Renfrewshire. d. The Moulinère, Putney, Surrey 14 Nov. 1874. Builder xxxii, 982, 1035 (1874).
BILLINGTON, William (son of a contractor for road making). b. the Yew Trees, Samlesbury near Blackburn 1827; worked in cotton mills at Blackburn 1839; a beerseller at Blackburn; wrote a ballad called Th’ Shurat Weyvur 14,000 copies of which were sold at time of Lancashire cotton famine; author of Sheen and shade 1861; Lancashire poems with other sketches 1883, some copies of which have a portrait of him. d. 2 Bradshaw st. Blackburn 3 Jany. 1884 aged 56.
BINDLEY, Charles. b. 1796; author of following books all written under pseudonym of Harry Hieover; Stable talk and table talk, 2 vols. 1845–46, portrait; The pocket and the stud 1848, portrait; The stud for practical purposes and practical men 1849; Practical horsemanship 1850; The hunting field 1850; Bipeds and quadrupeds 1853; Sporting facts and sporting fancies 1853; The world how to square it 1854; Hints to horsemen 1856; Precept and practice 1857; The sportsman’s friend in a frost 1857; The sporting world 1858 and Things worth knowing about horses 1859. d. at house of Sir Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 7 Lewes crescent, Brighton 12 Feb. 1859.
BINDON, Samuel Henry. b. Ireland 1812; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1835; called to Irish bar Nov. 1838; practised at Dublin; went out to Victoria 1855; called to bar at Melbourne 22 May 1855; member of legislative assembly of Victoria 1864–69; minister of justice 1866–1869; county court judge at Sale, Victoria 1869 to death except a short time, during which the Berry ministry took all the judges of county courts off the bench, the day when this was done 9 Jany. 1878 was known as Black Wednesday; had a prominent share in establishment of technological classes in large places. d. Melbourne 1 Aug. 1879 in 67 year.
BINFIELD, John Bilson (son of Mr. Binfield of Reading, organist who d. 1839). b. Reading 1805; organist of St. Giles’s church Reading many years; author of The choral service of the Church 1846; editor and compiler of The Reading psalmody 1847; set Dean Milman’s Martyr of Antioch to music. d. Devizes 28 June 1875.
BINGE, John Bull (son of a Sheffield cutler). First appeared in London May 1839 at Strand theatre in Lee’s adaptation of Auber’s opera The fairy lake; sang at Covent Garden theatre 1840–42; known as The singing mouse from his small voice; kept a toyshop in the Lowther Arcade; sec. to Covent Garden theatrical fund 1869 to death. d. New Malden, Surrey 21 Nov. 1878 aged about 63.
BINGHAM, Charles. b. 1 June 1815; 2 lieut. R.A. 20 June 1832; brigade major at Woolwich 1849–54; deputy adjutant general to R.A. 1 April 1858 to death; colonel R.A. 20 Jany. 1863 to death. (m. 13 March 1841 Williamina Henrietta dau. of John Mackintosh, M.D. of Edinburgh, she was granted a civil list pension of £150, 19 June 1865). d. Brighton 6 April 1864.
BINGHAM, Rev. Charles William (youngest son of Rev. Wm. Bingham 1771–1810, R. of Cameley, Somerset). b. 28 Sep. 1810; ed. at New coll. Ox., fellow, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; V. of Sydling St. Nicholas Dorset 1838–46; R. of Melcombe Horsey, Dorset 23 Feb. 1842 to death; preb. of Salisbury 1876 to death; author of Commentaries on the four last books of the Pentateuch translated from the Latin of John Calvin 4 vols. 1852–55; a frequent contributor to Notes and Queries 1850 to death. d. Bingham’s Melcombe 1 Dec. 1881.
BINGHAM, Henry. Second lieut. 60 Rifles 30 April 1827, lieut. col. 19 June 1857 to 1865; inspecting field officer 1865–70; M.G. 6 March 1868. d. Wolverton house, co. Dublin 1 Oct. 1878.
BINGHAM, Peregrine (elder son of Rev. Peregrine Bingham 1754–1826, R. of Edmundesham, Dorset). b. 1788; ed. at Winchester and Magd. coll. Ox., B.A. 1810; barrister M.T. 27 Nov. 1818; recorder of Southampton 5 Nov. 1830 to July 1840; contested Southampton 9 Jany. 1835; police magistrate at Worship st. London 1841, at Great Marlborough st. 1846–60; lived at 35 Gordon square, London 1842 to death; author of The law and practice of judgments and executions 1815; The law of infancy and coverture 1816; A system of shorthand 1821; Reports of cases in Court of Common Pleas and other courts 10 vols. 1824–34; New cases in the Court of Common Pleas and other courts 6 vols. 1835–41; one of chief contributors to Westminster Review, wrote 5 articles in the first number Jany. 1824. d. 35 Gordon sq. London 1 Nov. 1864.
BINGHAM, Rev. Richard (son of Rev. Isaac Moody Bingham, R. of Runwell, Essex who d. 1807). b. 1 April 1765; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., fellow, B.A. 1787, B.C.L. 1801; P.C. of Trinity church, Gosport 1790 to death; V. of Great Hale, Lincs. 1796 to death; preb. of Chichester cathedral 22 July 1807 to death; sentenced to 6 months imprisonment in county gaol at Winchester 26 Nov. 1813 for having illegally obtained a license for a public house when no such house was in existence; published by subscription third ed. of Joseph Bingham’s Origines Ecclesiasticæ 1829. d. Newhouse, Gosport 18 July 1858. Proceedings in a trial, the King against Rev. Richard Bingham 1814.
BINGHAM, Rev. Richard (eld. son of the preceding). b. 1798; ed. at Magd. hall Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1827; C. of Trinity church, Gosport 1821–43; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Harwood, Bolton 1844–52; C. of St. Mary’s Marylebone 1853–56; P.C. of Queenborough, Kent 1856–70; edited The works of the Rev. Joseph Bingham 10 vols., Clarendon Press Oxford 1855; author of Liturgia Recusa or suggestions for revising the services of the United church of England and Ireland 1860; Liturgiæ recusæ exemplar, The Prayer book as it might be 1863; The Gospel according to Isaiah 1870; Hymnologia Christiana Latina 1871. d. Sutton, Surrey 22 Jany. 1872.
BINGHAM, Richard Camden. b. 2 May 1801; chargé d´affaires at Venezuela 23 Nov. 1852 to 31 Aug. 1858. d. 23 Jany. 1872.
BINNEY, Edward William. b. Morton, Notts. 1812; solicitor at Manchester 1836; conducted the case for the Claimant in the great Chadwick law suit Nov. 1847; a paraffin oil manufacturer in Scotland; chief