Christopher Hiley Ludlow Bathurst, 3rd Viscount Bledisloe, QC (24 June 1934 – 12 May 2009), was a British barrister and politician. Bledisloe was the son of Benjamin Bathurst, 2nd Viscount Bledisloe. He was educated at Eton – having won a scholarship from

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– and

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, but left the latter after a year. He served in the army as a Second Lieutenant of the 11th Hussars from 1954 to 1955 and was called to the Bar at

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in 1959, after placing fourth out of 500 candidates in the Bar exams. In 1978 he became a

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(QC). He was one of the ninety hereditary peers elected by the other hereditary peers to take a seat in the

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, which most hereditary peers lost by the House of Lords Act 1999. The Bledisloe seat is

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, from which the territorial designation of the peerage was taken. He sat as a crossbencher. Bledisloe married Elizabeth Mary Thompson in 1962. They had two sons and one daughter and divorced in 1986. His elder son and successor, Rupert Bathurst, 4th Viscount Bledisloe, is a noted portrait artist. Bledisloe died on 12 May 2009.www.publications.parliament.uk
/ref> Bledisloe was the President of the

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(SMTC), also known as the Cresta.

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Viscount Bledisloe
– Daily Telegraph obituary * * http://www.thepeerage.com/p14421.htm#i144207 1934 births 2009 deaths Viscounts in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford People educated at Eton College English King's Counsel 11th Hussars officers 20th-century King's Counsel Members of Gray's Inn Christopher 21st-century King's Counsel People educated at Ludgrove School English barristers {{UK-viscount-stub Hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999