Born at
Craigavad near
Belfast, Bing was educated at
Rockport School (of which his father was the founding headmaster) and
Tonbridge School before going on to
Lincoln College, Oxford, where he read history. He graduated with a second-class degree in 1931, before attending
Princeton University, where he was a
Jane Eliza Procter Visiting Fellow between 1932 and 1933. He was
called to the Bar from the
Inner Temple in 1934. He was re-elected in
1950 and
1951, serving until 1955. He served briefly as a junior
whip in 1945-46 but this was widely thought to have been the unintended result of confusion on the part of
Clement Attlee, who confused him for another Labour MP of a similar name. ==Backbencher==