Lieutenant-Colonel Allen Benjamin Bathurst (25 June 1872 – 8 October 1947) was a British

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politician. Bathurst was the third son of

Allen Bathurst, 6th Earl Bathurst Allen Alexander Bathurst, 6th Earl Bathurst (19 October 18321 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. ...

, and his first wife the Hon. Meriel ''née'' Warren (1839–1872), daughter of

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. He served under his elder brother

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, in the

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and later commanded the

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, retiring with the rank of

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in the

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Reserve. At the 1895 general election he was elected to the

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(MP) for

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, a seat he held until his defeat in

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. He regained the seat at the January 1910 election and held it until the constituency was abolished at the 1918 general election. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of

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on 24 December 1913. Bathurst married at St Peter's Church, Eaton Square, on 22 April 1902, Augusta Ruby Spencer-Churchill, daughter of Lord Edward Spencer-Churchill, and granddaughter of the 6th Duke of Marlborough. They had a son, Peter Bathurst (1903–1970). He died in October 1947, aged 75. His grandson and namesake is the prominent naval commander Sir Benjamin Bathurst.

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