Date: 09/09/2009
Tribute has been paid to High Peak Borough Mayor Tony Bingham, who died on Tuesday 8 September following a heart attack.
Councillor Bingham, aged 69, was in Wythenshawe Hospital awaiting a quadruple heart bypass scheduled for Wednesday 9 September.
One of two Conservative councillors representing Blackbrook Ward, he was elected to the Borough Council in May 2007 and was appointed Borough Mayor just four months ago.
Chief Executive Simon Baker said Councillor Bingham was very well liked by everyone and had been an excellent Mayor because of his obvious interest in people.
Councillor Bingham died less than three weeks after Deputy Mayor Cynthia Mitchell, who passed away in the early hours of Sunday 23 August. Full Council will appoint their successors on Thursday 22 September.
A resident of Crossings Road, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Councillor Bingham leaves wife Mary, sons Andrew and Ian, daughters-in-law Jayne and Janice, and grandchildren James and Emily.
Born in Nottingham in 1940, Councillor Bingham moved to Buxton as a child in 1951.
In 1967, he started an electrical business in Chapel-en-le-Frith, specialising in the manufacture of control panels. In 1979, he moved the business to Hazel Grove, where it switched from manufacturing to the supply of general engineering equipment. He sold the company in 2003 and went into semi retirement but continued to work part time as an electrical engineer.
His son, Andrew, is one of two Conservative councillors for Chapel-en-le-Frith West and is Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the Conservatives for High Peak.