Lawrence Bingham is a former Australian rules football

Australian rules football

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er who played with Hawthorn

Hawthorn Football Club

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 and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League

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 (VFL).

Bingham appeared in the opening and 20th rounds of the 1989 VFL season

1989 VFL season

-Notable events:* In Round 13, horrendous conditions at Windy Hill saw Essendon and Footscray play the lowest scoring game since the 1927 Grand Final, with the teams combining for only 6.15 ....

, a premiership year for Hawthorn. After playing just once in 1990 and not featuring at all in the 1991 season, Bingham was traded to St Kilda.

A ruckman, he got selected more regularly at his new club, appearing eight times in 1992. Bingham then had his most productive season in 1993, playing 14 games. He had 178 hit outs that year, the most by any St Kilda player.

He is one of a handful of league footballers to have been born in England.