3 February 2016, a judge declared the GRO could issue the certificate, allowing Bingham to inherit the peerages. On 23 May 2016, Lucan formally petitioned the House of Lords to have his succession recognised. On 7 June, the House declared that he had established his claims to the titles, and he was directed to be entered on the register of hereditary peers maintained in connection with the House of Lords Act 1999 by virtue of his subsidiary title Baron Bingham in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. As of March 2018, he had not stood in the internal Lords by-elections for replacing of the 92 electable hereditary representative peers (upon their retirements or deaths). References 1967 births Living people British bankers Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge People educated at Eton College George Bingham Baronets, of Castlebar