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Viv Bingham
Vivian Bingham OBE (11 April 1932 – 3 March 2012), known as Viv Bingham, was a British political activist.
==Biography==
Bingham grew up in Alnwick, Northumberland, England, before studying at New College, Oxford. He worked as a personnel director,〔''The Times Guide to the House of Commons'' (1974), p. 148〕 then as a company managing director and management consultant.〔''The Times Guide to the House of Commons, June 1983'', p. 93〕 He joined the Co-operative Wholesale Society (now the Co-operative Group) in 1980 and took on a passionate long term commitment to co-operation and to industrial democracy generally which he badgered the Liberal Party and, later, the Liberal Democrats to get into legislation. Long a Liberal Party activist, Bingham stood in Heywood and Royton in the February and October 1974 general elections, then in Hazel Grove in 1979, and West Derbyshire in 1983, as well as Cheshire East at the 1979 elections to the European Parliament, but was never elected.〔
Bingham was a supporter of unilateral nuclear disarmament, and a leading figure in Liberal CND.〔Michael Clarke and Mo Mowlam, ''Debate on disarmament'', p.7〕 From 1981 to 1982, he served as President of the Liberal Party.〔John Minnion and Philip Bolsover, ''The CND Story'', p. 138〕 He was subsequently awarded the OBE.
At the 2005 general election he stood for the Liberal Democrats in Stalybridge and Hyde.〔"(Stalybridge and Hyde )", ''Tameside Advertiser'', 14 April 2005〕
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