Jump to navigation Jump russian wife my name is earl search “Lord Lucan” redirects here. For other holders of the title, see Earl of Lucan. Lord Lucan, was a British peer who disappeared after being suspected of murder.

On the evening of 7 November 1974, the children’s nanny, Sandra Rivett, was bludgeoned to death in the basement of the Lucan family home. Within Britain, there has been continuing interest in Lucan’s fate. Despite a police investigation and huge press interest, Lucan has not been found. Richard John Bingham was born on 18 December 1934 at 19 Bentinck Street, Marylebone, London, the second child and elder son of George Bingham, 6th Earl of Lucan, an Anglo-Irish peer, and his wife Kaitlin Elizabeth Anne Dawson. John and his siblings lived in grandeur and wanted for nothing, but on their return to England in February 1945 they were faced with the stark realities of wartime Britain. At Eton College, John developed a taste for gambling. On leaving the army in 1955, Lucan joined a London-based merchant bank, William Brandt’s Sons and Co.

In 1960 he met Stephen Raphael, a rich stockbroker who was a skilled backgammon player. Lucan met his future wife, Veronica Duncan, early in 1963. She was born in 1937 to Major Charles Moorhouse Duncan and his wife, Thelma. Her father had died in a car accident while she was still very young, following which the family had moved to South Africa. News of their engagement appeared in The Times and The Daily Telegraph newspapers on 14 October 1963, and the two were married at Holy Trinity Church, Brompton on 20 November.

Lucan’s daily routine consisted of breakfast at 9:00 am, coffee, dealing with the morning’s letters, reading the newspapers, and playing the piano. He sometimes jogged in the park and took his Doberman Pinscher for walks. Lunch at the Clermont Club was followed by afternoon games of backgammon. As a professional gambler he was undoubtedly a skilled player, once rated amongst the world’s top ten backgammon competitors. He won the St James’s Club tournament and was Champion of the West Coast of America.