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About Richard Bellingham
Richard Bellingham was a colonial magistrate, lawyer, and several-time governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the last surviving signatory of the colonial charter at his death. A wealthy lawyer in Lincolnshire prior to his departure for the New World in 1634, he was a liberal political opponent of the moderate John Winthrop, arguing for expansive views on suffrage and lawmaking, but also religiously somewhat conservative, opposing the efforts of Quakers and Baptists to settle in the colony. He was one of the architects of the Massachusetts Body of Liberties, a document embodying many sentiments also found in the United States Bill of Rights.
Everything about Richard Bellingham →- Occupation
- lawyer, politician
- Position held
- Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1592
- Died
- December 7, 1672