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Thomas Henry Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill, (13 October 1933 – 11 September 2010), was an eminent British judge and jurist. He served in the United Kingdom's highest judicial offices as Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice and as a Senior Law Lord. After retiring from the judiciary in 2008, Lord Bingham focused on teaching and lecturing in Human Rights Law. His book on the ''The Rule of Law'' was published in 2010 and won the 2011 Orwell Prize for Literature. The British Institute of International and Comparative Law named the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law in his honour in 2010. == Early life == Bingham was born in Marylebone, London. His parents, Thomas Henry Bingham (1901-1980) and Catherine (''née'' Watterson) (1902–1989) practised as doctors in Reigate, Surrey. His father was born in Belfast;〔(www.nationalarchives.ie )〕 his mother was from California before being raised on the Isle of Man. He was educated at The Hawthorns prep school at Bletchingley, Surrey, where he was Head Boy, and then from 1947 the Cumbrian public school Sedbergh School (Winder House), where he was described as the "brightest boy in a hundred years". He enjoyed history, took up fell walking, and developed a strong attachment with the Church of England; he was a Head of House and a School Prefect. He won an open scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, but first completed national service as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Ulster Rifles from 1952 to 1954, serving in Hong Kong. He enjoyed his service in the Army, and considered a military career. He went up to Oxford in 1954 and initially studied philosophy, politics, and economics, but after two terms switched to history. He won a Coolidge Pathfinder Award and spent the summer of 1955 in the US. He joined Gray's Inn during his second year at Oxford, with a view to becoming a barrister. He was elected President of Balliol Junior Common Room in his third year, standing as an independent without the endorsement of a political party. He won the Gibbs Prize for Modern History in 1957, and was awarded first-class honours in his finals. One minor blemish was his failure to win a prize fellowship at All Souls College. After graduation, he read for the Bar as Eldon Law Scholar and came top of Bar finals in 1959. He married Elizabeth Loxley in 1963, of the Loxley family of Northchurch, Hertfordshire;〔(www.thepeerage.com )〕 they had one daughter Catherine Elizabeth (Kate, born 1965) and two sons Thomas Henry (Harry, born 1967) and Christopher Toby (Kit, born 1969).〔http://www.thepeerage.com/p14224.htm#i142238〕 Their only daughter, the Hon. Kate Bingham, is married to Dr Jesse Norman MP since 1992.〔(Intelligent Life, March/April 2012 )〕〔(www.jessenorman.com )〕 Lord and Lady Bingham had acquired, in 1965, a dilapidated cottage at Cornhill, near Boughrood in Powys, where he died in 2010. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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