BELLINGHAM, SIR EDWARD (d. 1549) was a son of Edward Bellingham of Erringham, Sussex, his mother being a member of the Shelley family. In May 1548 he was sent to Ireland as lord deputy. Ireland was then in a very disturbed con dition, but the new governor crushed a rebellion of the O'Connors in Leinster, freed the Pale from rebels, built forts, and made the English power respected in Munster and Connaught. Bellingham, however, was a headstrong man, and was constantly quarrelling with his council ; but one of his opponents admitted that he was "the best man of war that ever he had seen in Ireland." His short but successful term of office was ended by his recall in See R. Bagwell, Ireland Under the Tudors, vol. i. (1885).