Allen Bathurst, 6th Earl Bathurst

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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.

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.

Family

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Bathurst's wife and children, circa 1870 and 1880.

Mr Allen Bathurst, as he was until 1878, married on 31 Jan 1862, in the Tabley Chapel, Great Budworth, the Hon. Meriel Leicester (1839 - 1872), daughter of George Warren, 2nd Baron de Tabley, by his first wife Catharina Barbara, daughter of Count de Salis. They had three sons and one daughter. After her death in 1872, (11 days after the birth of their son Benjamin), he married Evelyn Elizabeth, daughter of George James Barnard Hankey, in 1874. They had one daughter.

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Carte de visite of Mrs Allen Bathurst (1839-1872).

Lord Bathurst died in August 1892, aged 59, and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son Seymour. His third son Benjamin also became Member of Parliament for Cirencester and was the grandfather of the naval commander Admiral of the Fleet Sir Benjamin Bathurst. Lady Bathurst survived her husband by over thirty years and died in 1927.

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages

External links

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

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Joseph Randolph Mullings Ashley Ponsonby	Member of Parliament for Cirencester 1857 – 1878 With: 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