BINGHAM, JOSEPH, a learned scholar and divine, born at Wakefield in Yorkshire, in September 1668; educated at University College, Oxford; and afterwards, by John Radcliffe, M.D., presented to the rectory of Headbournworthy, near Winchester. In this country retirement he began his laborious and valuable work entitled Origines Ecclesiasticæ, or Antiquities of the Christian Church, the first volume of which appeared in 1708. It was completed by the publication of the tenth volume in 1722. Notwithstanding his learning and merit, Bingham received no higher preferment than that of Headbournworthy till the year 1712, when he was collated to the rectory of Havant, near Portsmouth, by Sir Jonathan Trelawney, bishop of Winchester. He died August 17, 1723, in his fifty-fifth year.