Margaret Bingham Countess Lucan

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MBCL , eighteenth-century London miniature-painter, wit, and minor bluestocking, seems to have written verse all her life. Her writing would not be remembered if it were not for her strong political poem protesting against Britain's treatment of Ireland.
  • BirthName: Margaret Smith
  • Married: LadyBingham
    She was Lady Bingham for sixteen years before becoming Lady Bingham after her husband was granted a title.
    ; LadyLucan
  • Pseudonym: Lady L—n
  • Titled: LadyBingham
    She was Lady Bingham for sixteen years before becoming Lady Bingham after her husband was granted a title.
    ; LadyLucan
Mezzotint of Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan, by James Watson after a painting by Angelica Kauffmann, published 1776. Lucan wears a laurel wreath (as a painter, not a poet) above her simple robe and dark mantle. She is sitting on a velvet, tasselled stool leaning on a carved table and gesturing towards a large book of art works. A classical column stands in the background.

Milestones

1740

Margaret Smith, later Margaret, Lady Lucan , was born at Canons Leigh in Devon, the younger of two sisters.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.
8: 237-8
qtd. in
Behrendt, Stephen C., and George Holmes, editors. “Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period”. Alexander Street Press, 2008.

Probably 1778

Margaret Bingham, Countess of Lucan , published Verses on the Present State of Ireland in Dublin as Lady L—n and in London as a Lady.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

27 February 1814

Margaret Bingham, Countess of Lucan , died in St James's Place, London after fifteen years as a widow.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.
8: 238

Biography

Birth and Family

1740

Margaret Smith, later Margaret, Lady Lucan , was born at Canons Leigh in Devon, the younger of two sisters.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.
8: 237-8
qtd. in
Behrendt, Stephen C., and George Holmes, editors. “Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period”. Alexander Street Press, 2008.

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