Allen Alexander Bathurst, 6th Earl Bathurst (19 October 18321 August 1892), known as Allen Bathurst until 1878, was a British peer and

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Background and education

Bathurst was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Seymour Thomas Bathurst, third son of

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. His mother was Julia, daughter of John Peter Hankey. His father, a veteran of the

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, died when Bathurst was one year old. He was educated at

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and

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; in 1853 he received an MA.

Military career

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

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in the

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on 16 May 1851 and was promoted to

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on 4 May 1853. and then to

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in the

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on 10 November 1854. During the invasion scare of 1859–60 he raised the 9th (Cirencester) Gloucestershire Rifle Volunteer Corps on 13 February 1860 with the rank of captain, beginning a long family association with what became the

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. He retained his commission in the militia and was promoted to

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on 22 March 1870 and to the honorary rank of lieutenant-colonel on 3 May 1876. He retired from the militia on 23 March 1878.''Army List'', various dates.

Political career

In 1857 he was elected to the

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as one of two representatives for

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, a seat he held until 1878, when he succeeded his uncle in the earldom and entered the

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. 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 (18391872), 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. * Lady Georgina Bathurst (1863-1922) married Sir George Buchanan, and had issue. *

Seymour Bathurst, 7th Earl Bathurst Seymour Henry Bathurst, 7th Earl Bathurst, Order of St Michael and St George, CMG, Territorial Decoration, TD, Justice of the peace, JP, Deputy lieutenant, DL (21 July 1864 – 21 September 1943) was a British nobleman, soldier and newspaper o ...

(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

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. His third son

Benjamin Benjamin ( ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the younger of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel, and Jacob's twe ...

also became Member of Parliament for Cirencester and was the grandfather of the naval commander

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

Notes

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

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