George Charles Bingham (8 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Full Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full orange cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, no previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall a VERY GOOD PLUS condition book. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover.

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Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

2pp., 12mo. 20 lines. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Asking Chorley if he would be one of '3 members for the committee which is to be set up to examine the powers of this House over its members relative to their attendance - that is probably not an accurate description of it, but I have not got the reference handy, and I think you will know what I mean!' The committee is to be appointed the following June, 'but Hendriks would be glad to have the names beforehand'. 'Wedgy Benn [William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate] and Lewis Silkin' have also been asked. From the Chorley papers.

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2pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. 'Lord Bingham presents his compliments to Sir Francis Freeling & will feel much obliged to him if he will be good enough to have the accompanying letter opened & returned to him free of postage as Ld. B. knows it to be a Petition to the House of Commons | Ld. B. is anxious to have the Petition returned to him by his servant as it will be necessary that it should be presented this day | 3 Park Place | June 12th.' Docketed with year and date of reply on reverse of second leaf, which also has the two newspaper cutting tipped in onto it. The first carries an entry on the family of 'LUCAN, EARL OF. (BINGHAM)', ending 'RICHARD, PRESENT AND SECOND EARL.' The other cutting, ffrom the Illustrated London News, is a biographical article headed 'MAJOR-GENERAL THE EARLOF LUCAN' and begins: 'IN this week's number of the ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS we present our readers with an admirable Portrait of Major-General the Earl of Lucan, appointed to command the cavalry division now in course of embarkation for the seat of war.'.

First and only contemporary edition, this a presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page "Colonel Duncombe, 1st Life Guards, from the Author July 29 1882". The recipient was Walter Henry Octavius Duncombe, late Colonel Commandant of the 1st Life Guards. Uncommon, Library Hub has BL and Royal Collection only; WorldCat lists Boston and Ohio universities and the US Army Military History Institute. It was Lucan who passed Raglan's order to Cardigan and thus initiated the debacle of the Charge of the Light Brigade. "Immediately after the action, Raglan blamed Cardigan, who replied that he had received a direct order from a senior officer (Lucan). That evening, Raglan accused Lucan of losing the light brigade. Lucan protested that he was only following orders, but Raglan told him that, as a lieutenant-general, he should have exercised his discretion. Next day, to help him prepare his dispatch for the government, Raglan asked Lucan for a copy of the order, as he had not retained one, and this began a series of different versions which circulated in years to come. Back in England, Lucan strove to clear his name. Twice demands for a court martial were refused on the grounds that his recall rested on his relations with his superior officer not professional misconduct. He took his case to the floor of the House of Lords on 19 March 1855, without noticeable success. Further to support his overall case, in 1856 he published his divisional orders and correspondence as English Cavalry in the Army of the East. Meanwhile, the mutual antagonism between him and Cardigan continued to fester. Both wrote letters to The Times in April 1855 about the other's actions over the heavy brigade charge, and Lucan was widely thought to have sponsored George Ryan's critical pamphlet in that year, Was Lord Cardigan a hero at Balaclava?" (ODNB). The book includes Lord Lucan's correspondence with General Airey, Lord Raglan, the War Office and others after his recall, and also the two letters published in The Times. The preface explains: "These Divisional Orders and this Correspondence were intended to form an Appendix to a Narrative of the Services of the English Cavalry in the Crimea. Circumstances have made it desirable that their publication should not be further deferred". Small octavo. Original deep red wavy-grain cloth, lettered in gilt to front board and spine, decorative panelling in blind to both boards, brilliant yellow surface-paper endpapers. A little rubbed overall, head and tail of the spine slightly chipped, inner hinges with minor paper repairs, endpapers with mild damp-staining at the top of the gutter, later gift inscription to the front pastedown (dated 1923), small chip from the fore-edge of the front free, pale toning to the contents which are clean and sound, a small fragile book, this certainly a very good copy.