Allen Bathurst, 6th Earl Bathurst

Lord Bathurst and his first wife, Meriel (1839-1872).

Allen Alexander Bathurst, 6th Earl Bathurst (19 October 1832 – 1 August 1892), known as Allen Bathurst until 1878, was a British peer and Conservative Member of Parliament.

Background and education

Bathurst was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Thomas Seymour Bathurst, third son of Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst. His mother was Julia, daughter of John Peter Hankey. His father, a veteran of the Battle of Waterloo, died when Bathurst was one year old. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge;^[1] in 1853 he received an MA.

Military career

Bathurst was an officer in the auxiliary forces for many years. He was commissioned as an

5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. He retained his commission in the militia and was promoted to major on 22 March 1870^[6] and to the honorary rank of lieutenant-colonel on 3 May 1876.^[7] He retired from the militia on 23 March 1878.^[8]^[9]

Political career

In 1857 he was elected to the

House of Commons as one of two representatives for Cirencester, a seat he held until 1878, when he succeeded his uncle in the earldom and entered the House of Lords

. In 1861 he bought a house in Chobham as well as being resident in London.

Family

Mr Allen Bathurst, as he was until 1878, married on 31 Jan 1862, in the Tabley Chapel, Great Budworth, the Hon. Meriel Warren (1839 – 1872), daughter of

Baron de Tabley, by his first wife Catharina Barbara, daughter of Count de Salis

. They had three sons and one daughter.

Lady Georgina Bathurst (1863-1922) married Sir George Buchanan, and had issue.
Seymour Bathurst, 7th Earl Bathurst (1864-1943)
Hon. Lancelot Bathurst (1868-1928)
Lt.-Col. The Hon. Allen "Benjamin" Bathurst (1872-1947)

They lived in St George's Hanover Square. After her death in 1872, (11 days after the birth of their son Benjamin), he remarried in 1874 Evelyn Elizabeth Hankey, daughter of George James Barnard Hankey. They had one daughter:

Lady Evelyn Selina Bathurst (1875-1946) married 1898 Major George Coryton Lister, KRRC, and had children.

Lord Bathurst died in August 1892, aged 59, and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Benjamin Bathurst

. Lady Bathurst survived her husband by over thirty years and died in 1927.

Notes

^ "Bathurst, Allen (BTRT850AA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ London Gazette, 27 May 1851.
^ London Gazette, 13 May 1853.
^ London Gazette, 14 November 1854.
^ London Gazette, 17 February 1860.
^ London Gazette, 25 March 1870.
^ London Gazette, 2 May 1876.
^ London Gazette, 22 March 1878.
^ Army List, various dates.

References

Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (eds.) Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage 107th edition (London 2003)

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl Bathurst

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Joseph Randolph Mullings Ashley Ponsonby	Joseph Randolph Mullings 1857–1859 Ashley Ponsonby 1859–1865 Ralph Dutton 1865–1868	Succeeded by Thomas Chester-Master
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by William Lennox Bathurst	Earl Bathurst 1878–1892	Succeeded by Seymour Henry Bathurst

[1] "Bathurst, Allen (BTRT850AA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

[2] London Gazette, 27 May 1851.

[3] London Gazette, 13 May 1853.

[4] London Gazette, 14 November 1854.

[5] London Gazette, 17 February 1860.

[6] London Gazette, 25 March 1870.

[7] London Gazette, 2 May 1876.

[8] London Gazette, 22 March 1878.

[9] Army List, various dates.

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