Richard Bingley
{{short description|Welsh soldier, settler in Ireland}}
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Richard Bingley was an Irish soldier originally from Wales. In 1610 Bingley was appointed Constable of Doe Castle.{{harvnb|Morgan|2014|p=197}} He was granted a significant estate as part of the Plantation of Ulster. Along with his elder brother Sir Ralph Bingley, he turned County Donegal into a centre of Welsh settlement.{{harvnb|Morgan|2014|p=81}}
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- {{cite book |last=Bardon |first=Jonathan |title=The Plantation of Ulster |publisher=Gill & MacMillan |year=2012}}
- {{cite book |last=Morgan |first=Rhys |title=The Welsh and the Shaping of Early Modern Ireland, 1558-1641 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |year=2014}}
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Category:17th-century Irish people
Category:People from County Donegal
Category:Welsh emigrants to Ireland
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