Peregrine Bingham, the younger (1788–1864) was an English legal writer and journalist.
Life
He was the eldest son of
Peregrine Bingham the elder, by Amy, daughter of William Bowles. He was educated at
Winchester School and
Magdalen College, Oxford (B.A. 1810), was
called to the bar at the
Middle Temple in 1818, and was for many years a legal reporter. He also was one of the principal contributors to the Westminster Review, which was established in 1824.
John Stuart Mill of the first number said: "The literary and artistic department had rested chiefly on Mr. Bingham, a barrister (subsequently a police magistrate), who had been for some years a frequenter of Bentham, was a friend of both the Austins, and had adopted with great ardour Bentham's philosophical opinions. Partly from accident there were in the first number as many as five articles by Bingham, and we were extremely pleased with them".
Bingham became one of the police magistrates at Great Marlborough Street, and resigned that appointment four years before his death, which occurred on 2 November 1864.[1]
He married Eliza, daughter of James Richard Bolton, an attorney, of Long Acre, Westminster, and younger sister[2] of Mary Catherine, an actress at Covent Garden Theatre, who married
Edward Hovell-Thurlow, 2nd Baron Thurlow.[3]
The Law and Practice of Judgements and Executions, including executions at the suit of the Crown. London. 1815.
8vo.
The Law of Infancy and Coverture. London. 1816. 8vo. First American edition. Exeter, United States. 1824. 8vo.[1] Second American edition. Burlington. 1849.[5][6]
A Digest of the Law of Landlord and Tenant. London. 1820. 8vo.
A System of Shorthand, on the principle of the Association of Ideas. London. 1821. 8vo. Thompson Cooper described this as "a stenographic system of no practical value".[1][7]
"Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Court of Common Pleas and in other Courts", from Easter term 1819 to Michaelmas term 1840. 19 vols. London. 1821-40. 8vo. The first three volumes of these reports were compiled jointly with
W. J. Broderip.
Hutchinson, John (1902). "Bingham, Peregrine" . A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices (1 ed.). Canterbury: the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. p. 21.
Frederic Boase. "Bingham, Peregrine". Modern English Biography. 1892. Volume 1.
Column 279.
Edward Walford. "Bingham, Peregrine". The County Families of the United Kingdom. Second Edition. Robert Hardwicke. 1864.
Page 86. Sixth Edition. 1871.
Page 90.
James Whishaw. "Bingham, Peregrine". A Synopsis of the Members of the English Bar. Stevens and Sons. A Maxwell. London. 1835.
Page 15. See also page xvii.
Hamzo and Crimmins. "Bingham, Peregrine". Crimmins (ed). The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism. 2013. Paperback. 2017.
Page 57.
Thompson Cooper. "Bingham, Peregrine". A New Biographical Dictionary. 1874.
Page 223.
"Bingham, Peregrine". The American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1864. Volume 4.
Page 167.
^A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 4, ed. John Burke, 1838, pg 352, 'Bingham of Melcombe, Bingham'
^The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year 1832, Volume 16, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, pg 473
^Alumni Cantabrigienses, Vol. 2, 1752-1900, Part I: Abbey - Challis, ed. John Venn and J. A. Venn, pg 264
^For reviews of the American editions of this book, see "Notices of New Books" (1848) 11 Monthly Law Reporter
378 (December 1848); and (1828) 26 North American Review
316.
^For further commentary on this book, see Eyre. A New and Complete System of Stenography, or Shorthand. 1840.
p 15.