Rev. Peregrine Bingham

The son of George Bingham, rector of Pimperne in Dorsetshsire, Peregrine Bingham was educated at Winchester College and New College Oxford (B.C.L. 1780, Fellow 1774-87). He was rector of Edmondsham, in Dorset (1782) and of Berwick St John, Wiltshire (1817). In 1807 he married Amy Bowles, daughter of the poet William Lisle Bowles. His child Peregrine, by a previous marriage, became a notable lawyer.

TEXT RECORDS:

1811The Pains of Memory, a Poem.

PUBLICATIONS:

The pains of memory, a poem. In two books. 1811.

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English
Anglican

Winchester College
New College Oxford
Bachelor of Civil Law

clergyman
poet

Rev. William Lisle Bowles
Rev. Joseph Warton

REFERENCE:

DNB; not NCBEL.

Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors (1816); obituary in Gentleman's Magazine 96 (July 1826) 91-92; Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882).

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Rev. Peregrine Bingham:

1.	1811  Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Review of Bingham, The Pains of Memory; The Monthly Review 66 (December 1811) 437.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Rev. Peregrine Bingham:

1.	1816  Anonymous, Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors (1816) 27.
2.	1826  Anonymous, Obituary in Gentleman's Magazine 96 (July 1826) 91-92.