george bingham , son of the infamous british aristocrat lord lucan , reacts as he leaves the high court in central london on feb. 3 , 2016 .
his son the right to inherit the family title .
photo : rex now , more than four decades later , a member of the set of wealthy gamblers media playback is unsupported on your device media caption lord bingham , lord lucan 's son : " i ' ve heard bizarre theories about my father " lord lucan is now presumed to be dead , a high court judge has ruled .
the eton - educated 7th earl of lucan vanished after sandra rivett , nanny to his three children , was found murdered at his family home in belgravia on november 7 , 1974 .
a death certificate has been issued 42 years after the peer vanished when his children 's nanny sandra rivett was bludgeoned to death in london .
his father lord lucan , born richard john bingham , vanished in nov. 1974 at the age of 39 after sandra rivett , his children 's nanny , was bludgeoned to death at his home in london .
the account comes days before a procedural hearing at the high court to determine whether a death certificate should finally be issued for lucan lord lucan 's body was fed to a tiger after he shot himself , a member of the missing peer 's gambling set has claimed , the latest twist in the decades - old mystery surrounding the fate of the aristocrat .
image copyright desmond o'neill image caption lord lucan in 1971 lucan disappeared the night ms rivett was murdered at
a british judge has granted a death certificate to the son of lord lucan , an aristocrat who disappeared following the murder of his children 's nanny in an unsolved mystery .