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

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