Max Bingham
Australian politician
Sir Eardley Max Bingham (18 March 1927 – 30 November 2021), was an Australian politician. He was Deputy Premier and Opposition Leader of Tasmania, who represented the electorate of Denison for the Liberal Party in the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1969 to 1984.
Early life and education
Born at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Battery Point, Hobart, Bingham was the only son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Bingham of Sandy Bay. He was educated in New South Wales and Tasmania, completing his secondary schooling with four years at Hobart High School. At the age of 18, he enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy in April 1945, and served as an able seaman at shore stations including HMAS Cerberus, and the auxiliary anti-submarine vessel HMAS Bingera, until his discharge in December 1946.
He was selected as the 1950 Tasmanian Rhodes Scholar. In that year, he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws with honours from the University of Tasmania. Bingham read for and received a Bachelor of Civil Law at Lincoln College, Oxford. Whilst at Oxford, Bingham met and married Margaret Jesson of Staffordshire (he had previously been engaged to Rhonda Harvey). He returned to Hobart in 1953, where he practised alongside Reg Wright, to whom he was articled at the University of Tasmania.
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