Well known Hymenopterist who was an editor of the FBI series. He was attached to the Bengal Staff Corps as a Lt. Colonel, and held the post of Conservator of Forests in Burma until 1894. While in Burma he did collect some Coleoptera as Fowler, (1912) records. After leaving Burma he settled in Kensington, London and was a 'familiar figure in the Insect Room of the Natural History Museum' where he worked primarily on Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera..
Gilbert (1977) lists various obituaries. A note in Ent.mon.Mag., 45, 1909, 36, by W.F. Kirby points out that their obituary contained an error: Bingham was not born in Ireland, but in India of an old Irish family, and educated in Ireland.
FZS 1895-1908; FRES 1895-1908, Council 1903-1906. (MD 10/01)
Dates
16 April 1848 - 18 October 1908