Carolyn Susan Bingham

BINGHAM, CAROLYN SUSAN, nee WEBB, (b. April 12, 1937, Corsham, Wilts, UK) of Belmont, Massachusetts. Died in Cambridge, MA, on July 24th, 2024, at age 87, after a brief illness. Carolyn began her civil service career working for the Wiltshire County Council in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, UK, in 1954, at age 17. From there her career took her to London, and eventually to the Foreign Office and the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., where she met her late husband, George Walter Chandler Bingham (d. 2014). After marriage in 1967, she moved to Belmont, Massachusetts, and worked for the Consul General in Boston until she became a mother in 1972. She will be missed by daughter Susan Cordelia Bingham, and grandchildren Rowyn, Dana, and Ewan Bingham McLaughlin (of Waltham, Massachusetts), and by her many friends and family in both the US and the UK. Carolyn’s parents were Kit Webb (born Kathleen Iris Tinkler) and Edward “Ted” Louis Webb, Master Builder. Her brother, David (d. 2010), was a builder and avid sailor. 

Carolyn loved to dance, and all things theater. She earned ballroom certifications while still living in the UK, and continued to dance into her 80’s. She loved the Belmont Dramatic Club, and participated in nearly every capacity over her fifty plus years as a member. Carolyn’s boundless curiosity for family history led her to a second career as a genealogist, to her ongoing membership in family and local history societies on both sides of the Atlantic (notably the Alden Kindred and Mayflower Society, and the Wiltshire Family History Society), and the publishing of several books, including a history of the Bingham Family at Dartmouth. At the time of her death, she was still looking forward to the publication of her genealogy of Christopher Webb, born in Crediton, Devon, UK, around 1600, who died in Braintree, Mass, USA in 1671. Carolyn was a true social butterfly. She loved red, acrostics, and freesias, and she leaves behind a large pile of colorful necklaces, and a lifetime of memories of her laughter. 

Carolyn’s life will be celebrated at All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Belmont, MA, at 1PM on August 14th, 2024, followed by private internments of her ashes with her husband in the family plot in Manchester, NH, and with her parents in the cemetery at St Michael’s Church, in Melksham, Wiltshire, UK.  swdfuneralhome.com

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