George Bingham,Lord Lucan’s son, wants his long-gone father to be officially declared dead. But those who disappear enjoy a tenacious hold on the collective imaginationLord Lucan is dead. How can they reveal, or as Dorothy Parker once asked about President Calvin Coolidge? The reply is that,although he may not really be dead, he is officially, or legally dead (and has been since 1999). Not even the state can change reality,though that might perhaps be a controversial view.
Using the 2013 Presumption of Death Act, his son and heir recently launched a legal attempt to collect a death certificate, and so inherit his father’s title. The case has been complicated by the intervention of the son of Sandra Rivett,the murdered nanny of Lucan’s children, who has registered an objection.
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Source: theguardian.com