Author: Bingley, Henry
Biography:
BINGLEY, Henry (1801-84: ancestry.co.uk)
He was the eldest son of Robert Bingley, FRS, and his wife Sarah, daughter of Stanesby Alchorne, the King’s assay master at the Royal Mint in the Tower of London. The Bingley family estate was Higham Lodge in Woodford, Essex. Stanesby Alchorne died in 1800 and Robert Bingley succeeded him as the King’s assay master. Although no birth record has been found for Henry, a birth year of 1801 in the Tower is well attested. By 1826 when Henry was a witness in a trial at the Old Bailey he was working as his father’s assistant. On 10 July 1829 at St. Mary the Virgin church, Woodford, Essex, he married Hannah Mildred; they had two sons—Robert and John George—who both became clergymen and a daughter, Elizabeth Beatrice. Hannah was the daughter of Quakers Daniel and Elizabeth Mildred and was born on 30 Apr. 1800 in Finsbury Square, London. Both Robert and Sarah Bingley died in the summer of 1847 and Henry inherited £20,000 and succeeded to the estate at Woodford. He also succeeded to his father as assay master at the Royal Mint. Hannah died in 1870 in Brighton and the 1871 Census shows Henry living in Colchester with his son John George Bingley and his family. By 1881 he was at 19 Lewes Crescent, Brighton, where he died on 22 Sept. 1884. Chemical Fragments seems to be his only published work; both his father and his maternal grandfather were interested in chemistry (particularly mutations of gold) and published papers on the subject. (ancestry.co.uk 31 May 2023; Essex Herald 29 Sept. 1884; oldbaileyonline.org 31 May 2023; Edward Walford, The County Families of the United Kingdom [1864]; Morning Post 24 Aug. 1847) SR