Madeline Bingham

Madeleine Mary Bingham (1 February 1912 – 16 February 1988, Ebel, sometimes misspelled Madeline ) was a British playwright, novelist and historian. She also wrote under the pseudonym Julia Mannering. She was married to John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris, so had the title Baroness Clanmorris.

Early life and wartime work Madeleine Ebel was born on 1 February 1912, the eldest daughter of Clement Ebel, managing director of a firm of interior decorators, and met John Bingham at a secretarial college, where he was learning shorthand and typing to prepare for a planned post as private secretary to a millionaire.

Her books included biographies of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Sir John Vanbrugh, Henry Irving and Herbert Beerbohm Tree,

A collection of the papers of John and Madeleine Bingham is held in the Gotlieb Contemporary Archive Collection at Boston University Libraries

Personal life Madeleine Bingham died suddenly on 16 February 1988; her husband died six months later from cancer, and they were survived by their two children. Their son inherited the title and is Simon Bingham, 8th Baron Clanmorris (born 1937), and their daughter is the writer Charlotte Bingham (born 1942). Cheapest in the end: Dodd, Meade, 1963 Your wedding guide: Transworld, 1967 Something's burning : the bad cook's guide: Corgi, 1968 Teach your own child: Transworld, 1968 A Career for your daughter: Corgi, 1969 How to be a good daughter-in-law: Redemptorist Publications, 1969 Mary, Queen of Scots: International Textbook, 1969 on Mary, Queen of Scots A career at forty: Transworld, 1971 Scotland under Mary Stuart : an account of everyday life: Allen and Unwin, 1971 Sheridan: the track of a comet: Allen and Unwin, 1972, on Richard Brinsley Sheridan Masks and façades: Sir John Vanbrugh, the man in his setting: Allen and Unwin, 1974, on John Vanbrugh The Making of Kew: Joseph, 1975, on Kew Gardens Peers and plebs: two families in a changing world: Allen and Unwin, 1975, autobiography up to 1937 Henry Irving and the Victorian theatre: Allen and Unwin, 1978, on Henry Irving (published in USA as Henry Irving: the greatest Victorian actor ) 'The great lover' : the life and art of Herbert Beerbohm Tree: H. Hamilton, 1978, on Herbert Beerbohm Tree Earls and girls: dramas in high society: H. Hammilton, 1980 Princess Lieven : Russian intriguer: Hamish Hamilton, 1982, on Dorothea Lieven Belinda and the baron : or The rape of the lock : a period comedy with music, based on the poem by Alexander Pope / words by Madeleine Bingham and Suzanne Ebel.: Thames, 1989