Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan
Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (born 18 December 1934 – disappeared 8 November 1974, declared dead 27 October 1999), commonly known as Lord Lucan, was a British peer and gambler who vanished in 1974 after being suspected of killing his children's nanny and attempting to murder his wife. An evacuee during World War II, Lucan attended Eton College and served with the Coldstream Guards in West Germany from 1953 to 1955. Having developed a taste for gambling, he played backgammon and bridge, and was an early member of the exclusive group of wealthy British gamblers at the Clermont Club. Lucan's losses often exceeded his winnings, yet he left his job at a London-based merchant bank and became a professional gambler. He was known as Lord Bingham from April 1949 until January 1964.
Lucan was known for his expensive tastes, racing power boats and driving an Aston Martin.[nb 1] In 1963, he married Veronica Duncan, having three children with her. The couple moved to 46 Lower Belgrave Street, Belgravia in 1967, paying £17,500 for the house (equivalent to £400,000 in 2023). After the marriage collapsed in late 1972, he moved out to a nearby property in January 1973, when they formally separated. A bitter custody battle ensued, which Lucan eventually lost. Apparently obsessed with regaining custody of the children, Lucan began to spy on his wife and record their telephone conversations. This fixation, combined with mounting legal expenses and gambling losses, had a dramatic effect on Lucan's life and personal finances.
On the night of 7 November 1974, Sandra Rivett, the nanny of Lucan's children, was murdered in the Lucan family home. A wounded Lady Lucan burst into the Plumbers Arms; she claimed to have been attacked by her husband and that he had admitted to killing Rivett. Lord Lucan telephoned his mother, asking her to collect his children, before driving to visit a friend in Uckfield, East Sussex; he also penned letters protesting his innocence and claiming that he had fought with an intruder who attacked his wife and that his wife accused him of hiring a hitman to kill her.[1] In the early hours of 8 November, Lucan drove off; his car was found abandoned in Newhaven, but he was never found. At the inquest into Rivett's death, held in June 1975, the jury returned a verdict naming Lucan as her killer.[2] Lucan was declared legally dead in 1999,[3] and a death certificate issued in 2016 allowed his titles to be inherited by his son George.[4][5] Lucan's involvement in Rivett's murder and his fate remain a subject of debate, various theories, and continuing research.
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