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  Earl of Lucan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Earl of Lucan was a title in the Irish peerage which has been possessed by two related Irish families in creations of 1691 and 1795.
The subsidiary titles associated with the Earldom are: Baron Lucan, of Castlebar in the County of Mayo (created 1776), and Baron Bingham, of Melcombe Bingham in the County of Dorset (1934).
The title became notorious after the disappearance in 1974 of the 7th Earl, who is suspected of the murder of his children's nanny.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Earl_of_Lucan   (469 words)

  
 LORD LUCAN'S FULL STORY - THE MYSTERY SURROUNDING LORD LUCAN.
Lucan stated that on the night of the murder, he was passing the house of his wife and children, and saw through the basement window his wife struggling with an assailant.
Lady Lucan's account is that after Sandra, the nanny, went downstairs to the basement kitchen to make tea, she became concerned about the long absence and went to the head of the stairs down to the basement and called her name.
In Lucan’s account, Lady Lucan was attacked in the basement, and in hers, she did not enter the basement at all, but was attacked at the head of the stairs.
www.lordlucan.com /lucan_story.htm   (5036 words)

  
 Richard Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (born 18 December 1934) is the subject of one of the world's great unsolved mysteries.
Aspinall said that he had no doubt that Lucan had killed the nanny, but that it was a mistake and Lucan had intended to kill his wife (a widely-held belief) and had killed himself out of shame for the botched job he had done, killing an innocent bystander.
This claims that the fugitive Lucan was sheltered by John Aspinall at his zoo which resulted in Lucan being mauled to death by a tiger and his corpse hurriedly disposed of.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_John_Bingham,_7th_Earl_of_Lucan   (716 words)

  
 George Charles Bingham, third Earl of Lucan (1800-1888)
He was eldest son of Richard, second Earl of Lucan and his wife Elizabeth who was the third daughter of Henry, third Earl of Fauconberg of Newborough and the divorced wife of Bernard Edward Howard who became the fifteenth Duke of Norfolk.
At the battle of Balaclava, it was Lucan who sent the Light Brigade into the "Valley of Death"; the two Heavy regiments suffered seriously, and Lucan was wounded in the leg by a bullet.
Lucan received the Crimean medal with four clasps, the Legion of Honour (3rd class), the Medjidie (1st class) and was made K.C.B. on 5 July 1855.
www.victorianweb.org /history/crimea/lucanbio.html   (596 words)

  
 Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Field Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis KG GCB, MC, DSO (December 10, 1891 - June 16, 1969) was a British military commander and Field Marshal, notably during World War II as the commander of the 15th Army Group.
The third son of the fourth Earl of Caledon and Lady Elizabeth Graham Toler, he was educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
He was created 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis and Baron Rideau of Ottawa, and of Castle Derg, county Tyrone on March 14, 1952.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harold_Alexander   (1124 words)

  
 Limerick Leader - November 6th, 1999 - News - Missing Lord Lucan is Sarsfield's kinsman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
CONTROVERSIAL missing British peer, the Earl of Lucan, is (or was) a relative of Limerick's siege hero, Patrick Sarsfield.
The title Earl of Lucan was that of Patrick Sarsfield who, after the Treaty of Limerick in 1691, became a general in the French army, falling at the battle of Landen.
Because of the gap in use of the Lucan title, Sir Charles was deemed to be the first Earl of Lucan under its renewed form.
www.limerick-leader.ie /issues/19991106/news03.html   (376 words)

  
 Lucan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Lucan was born in Cordoba in present-day Spain, and was the nephew of Seneca the Younger.
As with Virgil's masterpiece, Lucan's epic poem was unfinished at the time of his death, and its untidy condition is reflected in its 400 complete and partial copies.
Pharsalia was celebrated during the Middle Ages; Dante in De Volgari Eloquentia mentions Lucan, along with Ovid, Virgil and Statius as one of the four regulati poetae (ii, vi, 7).
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/Lucan.htm   (384 words)

  
 SPENCER - LoveToKnow Article on SPENCER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The death of the 2nd Earl Spencer in November 1834, called his son to the upper house, and Willia2n IV.
Often as he was urged by his political friends to come to their assistance, be rarely quitted the peaceful pleasures which he loved.
He died at Wiseton on the 1st of October 1845, being succeeded as 4th Earl, in default of issue, by his brother Frederick (d.
84.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SP/SPENCER.htm   (871 words)

  
 Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan - Pictures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Lord Lucan claimed, to a family friend he visited later the same night, that he been walking past the house, had seen someone struggling with Lady Lucan and entered the house to help her.
However a death certificate had not been published and Lucan's son, Lord Bingham has not been able to take the title of 8th Earl of Lucan or sit in the House of Lords, and since the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999 would be unable to sit by virtue of the hereditary peerage.
BBC Radio 2 presenter Mike Harding said in a letter to The Guardian newspaper that he knew Barry Haplin from his days as folk musician in Liverpool in the 1960s and that he had gone to India "as it was more spiritual than St. Helens".
greatestinfo.org /Richard_John_Bingham,_7th_Earl_of_Lucan   (620 words)

  
 PATRICK SARSFIELD - LoveToKnow Article on PATRICK SARSFIELD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He was born at Lucan, but the date is unknown.
King James had adopted the dangerous policy of remodelling the Irish army so as to turn it from a Protestant to a Roman Catholic force, and Sarsfleld, whose family adhered to the church of Rome, was selected to assist in this reorganization.
He went to Ireland with Richard Talbot, afterwards earl of Tyrconnel (q.v.), who was appointed commander-in-chief by the king.
97.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SA/SARSFIELD_PATRICK.htm   (635 words)

  
 Photo is of Jungle Barry, not Lord Lucan: Friends
The mystery behind the disappearance of Lord Lucan, a prominent British society figure, nearly three decades ago deepened on Tuesday with friends of a hippy from Goa, whom a new book claimed was the aristocrat, saying he was actually the son of a van driver.
The wife of Lord Lucan also scorned the suggestion that her husband was the figure depicted, with wild white heard and straggly hair, in the book Dead Lucky by former Scotland Yard detective Duncan MacLaughlin.
Lady Lucan said on Monday that it was 'utterly absurd' to suggest that Halpin, who was three years younger than Lord Lucan, was her husband.
ushome.rediff.com /news/2003/sep/09lucan.htm   (563 words)

  
 Voice from the Ranks: After the Siege
To the Earl of Lucan famine horrors were so many convincing demonstrations of the urgent necessity of clearing the land.
Behind Castlebar House the Earl of Lucan established a large dairy farm; the yard and buildings of this farm, which covered three acres, were cleared in the town of Castlebar itself -- whole streets were demolished and the stones from the walls used to build barns and boundary walls.
On October 26th, 1846, the Earl of Lucan, Chairman of the Board of Guardians, had declared the workhouse bankrupt, and, in spite of vehement protests from the Poor Law Commissioner, ordered the Castlebar Union to be entirely closed down.
www.victorianweb.org /history/famine2.html   (5397 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Sarsfield, Patrick, earl of Lucan (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
AllRefer.com - Sarsfield, Patrick, earl of Lucan (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Sarsfield, Patrick, earl of Lucan, British And Irish History, Biographies
Sarsfield, Patrick, earl of Lucan[sArs´fEld, lOO´kun] Pronunciation Key, d.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Sarsfiel.html   (224 words)

  
 The Harbinger. Books. April 10, 2001.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
She based the novel on the true story of the seventh Earl of Lucan, who killed his children's nanny because he thought she was his wife.
Because he was the seventh Earl of Lucan, he was entitled to do and have whatever he pleased.
According to Spark, or maybe to Hildegarde, the crime of murder is worse than that of fraud, but of course Lucan's behavior includes all of the seven deadly sins, while Hildegarde's motive was to alleviate her exhausting poverty and get a bit of rest.
www.theharbinger.org /xix/010410/kimbrough.html   (840 words)

  
 BBC News | UK | Lucan is dead, says son
Lord Lucan's son is reported to be planning to take up the title because he believes his father is dead.
Lucan, who was estranged from his wife, spelled out in letters written before his disappearance that he had been passing and had gone to investigate.
But police believed that he was obsessed with his three children, and having lost a custody battle for them, went to wreak revenge on his wife, but mistook the nanny for her.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/uk/147508.stm   (309 words)

  
 All about the Disappearance of Lord Lucan, by Rachael Bell
Lord Lucan was convinced that if he could prove that his wife was mentally unfit, he could gain permanent custody of the children.
However, although Lady Lucan knew she had a problem with depression, she did not believe that it incapacitated her or made her unable to care for her children.
Several weeks before the murder, Lord Lucan told another friend that he wanted to kill his wife and dump her into the waters of the Solent.
www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/family/lord_lucan/4.html   (1250 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Person Page 5245
George Charles Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan was the son of Charles George Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan and Lady Cecilia Catherine Gordon-Lennox.
George Charles Patrick Bingham, 6th Earl of Lucan was the son of George Charles Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan and Violet Sylvia Blanche Clay.
She married George Charles Patrick Bingham, 6th Earl of Lucan, son of George Charles Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan and Violet Sylvia Blanche Clay, on 23 December 1929.
www.thepeerage.com /p5245.htm   (852 words)

  
 Lady Lucan
He automatically became 8th Earl of Lucan when his father was presumed deceased in 1992 but chose not to use the title.
He is the 7th Earl of Lucan's only son and heir.
My now married daughter announced her engagement in The Times as "younger daughter of the 7th Earl of Lucan wheresoever and the Countess of Lucan" although she knew that her father had been presumed deceased in December 1992.
www.ladylucan.co.uk /index1.htm   (1206 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Aiding and Abetting : A Novel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Here she spins an inspired "what-if" scenario on the criminal career of the notorious seventh Earl of Lucan, convicted in absentia in 1974 of bludgeoning his children's nanny to death and severely wounding his wife, before eluding the police and leaving the country.
Since Lucan's day, snobs have been greatly emarginated." Spark is ridiculing both British aristocracy and their hankering for the "good old days"; it is this theme in particular that recalls the early satires of Evelyn Waugh.
Lord Lucan was accused of murdering his children's nanny and the attempted murder of his wife, but escaped capture.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385720904?v=glance   (2200 words)

  
 THE ATTACK ON BALAKLAVA
The other and larger mass turned towards Her Majesty’s heavy cavalry, and afforded Brigadier-General Scarlett, under the guidance of the Lieutenant-General the Earl of Lucan, the opportunity of inflicting upon them a most signal defeat.
The ground was very unfavorable for the attack of our Dragoons, but no obstacle was sufficient to check their advance, and they charged into the Russian column, which soon sought safety in flight, although far superior in numbers.
The Earl of Lucan not having sent me the names of the other officers who distinguished themselves, I propose to forward them by the next opportunity.
home.comcast.net /~markconrad/Balaklava-Raglan.htm   (857 words)

  
 LORD LUCAN.COM The official website for the missing 7th Earl of Lucan.
I believe Lord Lucan is alive and living in Africa, USA or Canada and that he's made a number of visits to the UK in the last 19 years.
It is my firm belief that Lord Lucan is alive and living in either South America or Africa, possibly Canada or the USA.
I also believe he remained in the UK for 2 days after the murder of his children's nanny before being flown out of the country from Kent, arranged by James Goldsmith and John Aspinall who were such good and true friends to Lord Lucan.
www.lordlucan.com   (1144 words)

  
 Lucan, George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The eldest son of the 2nd Earl of Lucan, Lord Bingham was educated at Westminster and was commissioned an ensign in 1816, rising to a lieutenant-colonelcy by 1826 (which he held until 1837) and seeing service with the Russians…
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Usually known as the prince of Wales, Charles is also earl of Chester, duke of Cornwall, duke of Rothesay, earl of Carrick, and baron of Renfrew, among other titles.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9049227?tocId=9049227   (823 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: British and Irish History: Biographies
Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 8th earl of and 1st marquess of
Bohun, Humphrey V de, 2d earl of Hereford and 1st earl of Essex
Carew, George, Baron Carew of Clopton and earl of Totnes
www.infoplease.com /encyclopedia/1ukhistbio.html   (663 words)

  
 Lord Lucan Murder Case Re-opened - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums
The 7th Earl of Lucan vanished in November 1974, a day after the murdered body of his children's nanny Sandra Rivett was found at his London home.
Lord Lucan's blood-soaked car was found abandoned in the port town of Newhaven, East Sussex, leading some, including his wife Lady Veronica Lucan, to believe he had drowned himself in the English Channel.
He said the 1991 photograph of a dishevelled man with a long beard bore a resemblance to the 7th Earl of Lucan and claimed he had lived under the assumed name Barry Halpin, or Jungle Barry.
www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=24914   (508 words)

  
 Lucan Coat of Arms
The death of Edward 'the Confessor', king of England, initiated a brief period of conflict between the various claimants to his throne that irrevocably changed the country of England.
Immediately following the death of Edward, Earl Harold Godwinson was elected and coronated king by the English nobility, and he became known as King Harold II.
A seat or family seat was the principal manor of a medieval lord, which was normally an elegant country mansion and usually denoted that the family held political and economic influences in the area.
www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/lucan-coat-arms.htm   (1197 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Lord Lucan mystery 'solved'
He says Mr Halpin told him he had arrived in Goa a year after the 7th Earl of Lucan mysteriously disappeared in 1974.
The book's authors said finding the Earl after his disappearance is outside of their remit.
Lord Lucan's blood-soaked car was found abandoned in Newhaven in 1974, the day after the battered body of his children's nanny Sandra Rivett was discovered at the earl's family home in central London.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/3088406.stm   (355 words)

  
 Lucan Lodge Nursing Home
Lucan Lodge was built in the 1600's as a dower house for Patrick Sarsfield, who was then the Earl of Lucan and resided at Lucan Castle (now the Italian Embassy).
The house had 18 acres of land and was part of the demesne of Lucan Castle.
The Joyce family bought the property in the 1960's and developed the surrounding land.
www.lucanlodge.com   (164 words)

  
 Articles - Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He was born at Lucan around 1660, but the date is unknown.
He went to Ireland with Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, who was appointed commander-in-chief by the king.
He married Lady Honora Burke (or de Burgh), daughter of the Earl of Clanricarde, by whom he had one son James, who died childless in 1718.
gaple.com /articles/Patrick_Sarsfield?mySession=661551684f4caa358fe4...   (910 words)

  
 BC Forums - View Single Post - Lord Lucan murder case reopened   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In October 1999, Britain’s High Court ruled the Seventh Earl of Lucan officially dead even though his body had not been found.
Lord Lucan’s estate, valued at less than £15,000 was released to executors.
Although the death was made official, the Seventh Earl of Lucan’s son George Bingham was unable to become a member of the House of Lords because there was no “definitive proof” that his father was dead.
www.bowlandcentral.com /forum/showpost.php?p=545617   (97 words)

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