Life
?-1765; painter and architect; portraits of Swift, Richard Baldwin, and
other eminent Irishmen; see Dunkin, Epistola ad Francisum Bindonum,
etc. (1740- ). ODNB DIB
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References
Henry Boylan, Dictionary of Irish Biography (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1988):Mansions to his design incl. Bessborough Hse.;
Woodstock Hse., Co. Kilkenny; and collaborated with Richard Cassels on
Russborough, Co. Wicklow; succeeded to family property, Co. Clare, 1761;
d. 2 June.
Brian de Breffny, Ireland: A Cultural Encyclopaedia (London: Thames & Hudson 1983); son of David Bindon, MP for Ennis; gentleman amateur, portrait painter and secondly architect; worked with Castle [Richard Cassell] on Russborough, Co. Wicklow, and Belan, Co Kildare; also Bessborough, Woodstock, Castle Morres, all in Co. Kilkenny; Dunsandle, co. Galway, and brick New Hall, Co. Clare (c.1745); see Knight of Glin, ‘Francis Bindon’, IGS Bulletin (1967).
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