Sir Edward Bellingham, 5th Baronet

Sir Edward Henry Charles Patrick Bellingham, 5th Baronet, (26 January 1879 – 19 May 1956 He was educated at The Oratory School and went then to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. In 1921, he succeeded his father as baronet. He fought with his regiment in the Second Boer War and was wounded. . For his service in South Africa he was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal and the King's South Africa Medal with three clasps. having been appointed to command 118th Brigade on 3 February. He commanded the brigade during the Third Battle of Ypres in July–November that year. In the 1918 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George. He and his Brigade major were taken prisoner on 28 March 1918 while commanding a rearguard during the confusion of the 'Great Retreat'. After the Armistice he was promoted to Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel. He retired in 1922.

Resident at Castlebellingham, County Louth, Bellingham was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Louth in 1921, a post he held for only one year until the establishment of the Irish Free State. In 1925, he was elected to the Free State Seanad Éireann with the ninth highest number of first preference votes nationwide of the 76 candidates, and he sat there until its abolition in 1936.

With the outbreak of the Second World War, Bellingham joined the Royal Air Force. and later was a Squadron Leader in the RAF Regiment. On 11 June 1904, he married Charlotte Elizabeth; she was the daughter of Alfred Payne and widow of Frederick Gough. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his nephew, Roger.