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Son, nephew and heir of wealthy Cleveland industrialists, Bingham was interested in natural history.
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Harry Bingham
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He is remembered for funding and leading a series of expeditions to study marine life. In the 1920s he led a series of expeditions on his private yacht that included biologist Albert Eide Parr and natural history illustrator Wilfrid Swancourt Bronson brought specimens and illustrations of marine life to the collections of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University. Bingham was the son of Cleveland industrial magnate Charles West. Bingham of Cleveland, and Mary Payne.
His mother"s brother Oliver H. Payne died without children, leaving his Hudson River estate to Harry Payne Bingham.
