Family and Education
b. by 1572,Birth date calculated from admiss. as freeman. 2nd s. of John Bingley, shearman, of Chester. educ. G. Inn 1612. GI Admiss. m. (1) Anne (bur. 17 May 1615), da. of Thomas Henshaw, Merchant Taylor of London; Regs. Westminster Abbey ed. J.L. Chester, 112. (2) c.July 1617, Elizabeth (d. aft. 1648), wid. of Sir John Grey (bur. 7 Oct. 1611) and da. of Edward Neville, 8th Lord Abergavenny. CP; R. Bingley, ‘Sir John Bingley’, Jnl. of Fam. Hist. Soc. of Cheshire, vii. 7-9. Kntd. 10 Jan. 1618. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 167. d. 1638. Index Prerogative Wills Ire. ed. A. Vicars, 13. sig. Jo[hn] Bingley.
Offices Held

Freeman, Chester 1593; Freemen of Chester ed. J.H.E. Bennett (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. li), 72. commr. sewers, Mdx. 1610, 1619, C181/2, ff. 140v, 347. Colne Valley 1624, C181/3, f. 116. annoyances 1613, C181/2, f. 199v. collector, Privy Seal loan, merchant strangers, London 1613; E403/2732, f. 196v. j.p. Mdx. 1614 – d., Westminster 1618–d. C181/2, ff. 331v; 181/3 ff. 7, 98v.

Chief remembrancer (jt.), exch.[I], 1603–10; CSP Ire. 1603–6, pp. 76–7; Bodl. Carte 61, f. 483. constable, Maryborough Castle, co. Cork, 1604; Bodl. Carte 62, f. 12. customs farmer, Drogheda 1605 – 11, Ire. 1613 – 24; comptroller, musters and cheques [I], 1627–d.; CSP Ire. 1625–32, p. 200. commr. plantation of Ulster, 1628, 1631. Ibid. 303, 636.

Writer of the tallies, Exch. 1609–20. Exchequer Officeholders comp. J.C. Sainty (L. and I. Soc. spec. ser. xviii), 207. The position was sometimes referred to as auditor of the receipt. Ibid. 201.

Cttee. Virg. Co. 1609; member, Africa Co. 1618. Recs. Virg. Co. ed. S.M. Kingsbury, iii. 80, 318; Select Charters of Trading Cos. ed. C.T. Carr (Selden Soc. xxviii), 99.

Main residences: Chester, Cheshire; St. Stephen’s, Westminster; Dublin, Ireland, [I].
Author
Volume
Commons 1604-1629
Web Title

BINGLEY, John (c.1572-1638)

Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Religion
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