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The Newcastle Daily Chronicle 17/07/1919 reports:

Captain John Warnock Bingham, R.A.M.C. of Cambois, Blyth, left estate valued at £1.437 5s 6d with net personalty £1.135 15s 8d. Mrs. Alison Bingham, of 3 Water Lane, Romford Road, Stratford, his widow, is the surviving executor.

Houston McKelvey has submitted the following:

John Bingham was educated at Campbell College and Queen’s University, Belfast.

He was the son of Henry Bingham, M.D., and Letitia Bingham, of Belfast, and husband of Alison Bingham, of 3, Ulsterville Avenue, Belfast.

He is named in the University War Memorial and the Book of Remembrance (which is available on line).He was also a member of the O.T.C. at Queen’s.

I would like to learn more about his relationship with Blyth.

I am working on a list of 33 Old Campbellians who were members of Queen’s O.T.C. and who died in the First World War.

Derek Johnstone has provided the following:

In 1911, John Warnock Bingham, born in Belfast, was living at Cambois, near to Blyth Northumberland where he was not only the local doctor but was also the Colliery Surgeon. His address in the census for that year is shown as Cambois, Blyth and he was living in a house with seven rooms along with his wife Alison (nee Kirk) from Edinburgh and his son, Henry Warnock, who was one year old. John was only son of Henry Bingham M.D. and Letitia Bingham.

Cambois at this time had a population of 5,242 and the Cambois Colliery, owned by the Cowpen Coal Company, could produce up to 1200 tons of coal in a single day. The landowner was Viscount Ridley.

John Warnock Bingham is not remembered on a local War Memorial.

Queen's University, Belfast, War Memorial
The CWGC entry for Captain Bingham