Peerage Record – 16215

     Colonel Edward Harding lived at Shroton, Blandford, Dorset, England^G.¹

     Nina Maud Ryves is the daughter of Major Charles Maxwell Ryves.¹

     Major Charles Maxwell Ryves gained the rank of Major in the Prince of Wales’s Bombay Grenadiers.¹

     Major Geoffrey Henry Cecil Bing is the son of Geoffrey Bing.¹ He married Christian Frances Blois, daughter of Sir Ralph Barrrett MacNaghten Blois, 9th Bt. and Winifred Grace Kennard, in April 1940.¹ He and Christian Frances Blois were divorced in 1955.¹
     He was appointed Queen’s Counsel (Q.C.)¹ He lived at Stanhope, Yoxford, Suffolk, England^G.¹ He was appointed Companion, Order of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.)¹

     Geoffrey Bing lived at Rockport, Craigavad, County Down, Ireland^G.¹ He graduated with a Master of Arts (M.A.)¹

     Inigo Geoffrey Bing was born on 1 April 1944.¹ He is the son of Major Geoffrey Henry Cecil Bing and Christian Frances Blois.¹ He married, firstly, Shirley-Anne Benka in 1980.¹ He married, secondly, Judith Caroline Anne Hughes on 31 March 2004.²
     He was educated at St. Olave’s Grammar School, Southwark, London, England^G.¹ He graduated from Birmingham University, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England^G, with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.)¹ He was admitted to Inner Temple in 1967 entitled to practise as a Barrister-at-Law.¹ He held the office of Member (Labour) of the London County Council between 1971 and 1978, for the Borough of Lambeth.¹ He was Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate between 1989 and 2000.¹ He wrote the book Criminal Procedure and Sentencing in the Magistrate’s Court, published 1990.¹ He was Recorder between 1996 and 2000.¹ He held the office of Circuit Court Judge in 2000.¹

     Shirley-Anne Benka married, secondly, Inigo Geoffrey Bing, son of Major Geoffrey Henry Cecil Bing and Christian Frances Blois, in 1980.¹ She died on 20 March 2003.²
     Her married name became Holmes.¹ From 1980, her married name became Bing.¹

     Richard Daniel Bing was born on 5 April 1946.¹ He was the son of Major Geoffrey Henry Cecil Bing and Christian Frances Blois.¹ He died on 4 February 2005 at age 58.²

     Flavia Ria Joan Blois was born on 26 December 1914.¹ She is the daughter of Sir Ralph Barrrett MacNaghten Blois, 9th Bt. and Winifred Grace Kennard.¹ She married Julian Ward Snow, Baron Burntwood, son of Henry Martin Snow, on 20 August 1948.¹
     From 20 August 1948, her married name became Snow.¹

     Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Nathaniel Woodard was born on 13 January 1939.² He was the son of Reverend Francis Alwyne Woodard and Mary Hayes.³ He married Rosamund Lucia Gibbs, daughter of Lt.-Col. Denis Lucius Alban Gibbs and Lady Hilaria Agnes Edgcumbe, on 20 July 1963.¹
     He was educated at Lancing College, Lancing, Sussex, England.² He gained the rank of Commander in the Royal Yacht Britannia.² He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.)² He was appointed Knight Commander, Royal Victorian Order (K.C.V.O.)²