Background
Bellingham was the eldest son of Sir Alan Henry Bellingham, 4th Baronet and his wife Lady Constance Noel, the second daughter of Charles Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough. In 1921, he succeeded his father as baronet.
Bellingham was the eldest son of Sir Alan Henry Bellingham, 4th Baronet and his wife Lady Constance Noel, the second daughter of Charles Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough. In 1921, he succeeded his father as baronet.
He was educated at The Oratory School and went then to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
During the First World War Bellingham was wounded and mentioned in despatches three times. He retired in 1922. Resident at Castlebellingham, Bellingham was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Louth in 1921, a post he held for only one year until the establishment of the Irish Free State. In 1925, he was elected to the Free State Seanad Éireann with the ninth highest number of first preference votes nationwide of the 76 candidates, and he sat there until its abolition in 1936.
With the outbreak of World World War II he joined the Royal Air Force.
He was promoted to a flight officer in 1941 and later led a squadron. After the war he served in the Commission of Control in Germany until 1947.
In his last years he was vice-consul at the British embassy in Guatemala.
In 1899, Bellingham was commissioned as ensign into The Royal Scots He fought with his regiment in the Second Boer War and after short time was awarded the Queen"s South Africa Meda In 1902 he received the King"s South Africa Medal together with three clasps. He was decorated with the Distinguished Service Order in 1916 and was promoted to major in 1917, while serving as temporary brigadier-general. In the New Year"s Honours 1918, he was invested as a Companion of the Order of Street Michael and Street George and a year later he was advanced to a brevet lieutenant-colonel.
