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Robert Benson, 1st Baron Bingley

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became extinct, although it was later re-created for his son-in-law. He had married Elizabeth, the daughter of Heneage Finch, and had a son (who predeceased him) and two daughters (one illegitimate). It has often been suggested that Bingley was also the real father of the British soldier, dramatist
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and sat in the House of Lords. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1711 to 1713.
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from July 1711 to February 1715. In 1713 he was ennobled as Baron Bingley, and became the
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from 1702 until 1713 when he was raised to the peerage as
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The Right Honourable
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Godfrey Kneller
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
Sir William Wyndham
Alma mater
Christ's College, Cambridge
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English
British House of Commons
Baron Bingley
Wakefield
Wrenthorpe
London
Christ's College, Cambridge
Lord Mayor of York
Member of Parliament
Thetford
Norfolk
York
Privy Council
Chancellor of the Exchequer
South Sea Company
British ambassador to Spain
Bramham Park
Wetherby
Westminster Abbey
Baron Bingley

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