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