Rose Lawton Bingham

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Rose Lawton Bingham (Morrison)

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Birthplace: Waycross, Ware County, Georgia, United States
Death: May 20, 1996 (87)
Salem, New London County, Connecticut, United States
Place of Burial: Salem, New London County, Connecticut, United States
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Wife of Hiram "Harry" Bingham, IV
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About Rose Lawton Bingham

Rose Lawton Morrison, 87, a member of one of connecticut ... 's most distinguished families, died Monday at the home off Birch Road, where generations of have lived. Mrs. Bingham was the wife of Hiram Bingham Jr. who served in a number of important posts with the U S ... . Foreign Service and helped hundreds escape from Nazi persecution when he was vice counsel in Marseilles from 1937 to 1941. He died at age 84 in 1988.

While posted in London, he met Rose Lawton Morrison, a college drama teacher from Waycross, Georgia, whom he escorted to Buckingham Palace to meet the Queen. They later married and had 11 children.

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Rose Lawton Bingham's Timeline

1908
October 25, 1908
Waycross, Ware County, Georgia, United States