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SIR EDWARD BELLINGHAM (d. 1549)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 700 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD BELLINGHAM (d. 1549)
  , lord deputy of Ireland, was a son of
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Edward Bellingham of Erringham, Sussex, his
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mother being a member of the Shelley
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family . As a soldier he fought in France and elsewhere, then became an
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English member of parliament and a member of the privy council, and in 1547 took
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part in some military operations in Ireland . In May 1548 he was sent to that country as lord deputy . Ireland was then in a very disturbed condition, but the new governor crushed a
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rebellion of the O'Connors in
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Leinster, freed the Pale from rebels, built forts, and made the English power respected in Munster and Connaught . Bellingham, however, was a headstrong man and was constantly quarrelling with his council; but one of his opponents admitted that he was " the best man of war that ever he had seen in Ireland." His short but successful
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term of office was ended by his recall in 1549 . See R . Bagwell, Ireland Under the Tudors, vol. i . (1885) .

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