{{Infobox noble, type , name = Seymour Bathurst , title = 7th Earl Bathurst , image = Seymour Henry Bathurst 001.jpg , caption = Seymour Henry Bathurst {{circa, 1902 , alt = , CoA = , more = no , succession = , reign = 1892–1943 , reign-type = , predecessor = Allen Bathurst , successor = Henry Bathurst , suc-type = , spouse =

Lilias Margaret Frances Borthwick Lilias Margaret Frances, Countess Bathurst (, 12 October 187130 December 1965) was a British newspaper publisher who owned ''The Morning Post.'' Her father, Algernon Borthwick, 1st Baron Glenesk, owned the paper and passed control to her upon h ...

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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. ...

, mother = Meriel Leicester Warren , birth_name = , birth_date = {{Birth date, 1864, 07, 21, df=y , birth_place = , christening_date = , christening_place = , death_date = {{Death date and age, 1943, 09, 21, 1864, 07, 21, df=y , death_place = , burial_date = , burial_place = , religion = , occupation = Soldier and newspaper owner , memorials = , website = , module = Seymour Henry Bathurst, 7th Earl Bathurst, CMG, TD, JP, DL (21 July 1864 – 21 September 1943) was a British nobleman, soldier and newspaper owner.''Who's Who'' (1903) Adam & Charles Black, London''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage,'' 100th Edn, London, 1953.

Background and education

Bathurst was the son of

and Meriel Leicester Warren. His maternal grandparents were

George Warren, 2nd Baron de Tabley George Fleming Warren, 2nd Baron de Tabley PC (28 October 1811 – 19 October 1887) was a British Liberal politician. He notably served as Treasurer of the Household under William Ewart Gladstone between 1868 and 1872. Background Born George ...

and his wife Catharina Barbara de Salis-Saglio. He was educated at

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and

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Military career

Bathurst followed his father into the part-time

4th Battalion (Royal North Gloucestershire Militia), Gloucestershire Regiment The Royal North Gloucestershire Militia (RNGM), later the 4th (Militia) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment was a Militia regiment raised in the county of Gloucestershire in the West of England. From its formal creation in 1763 the regiment serve ...

,''Army List'', various dates. and was promoted to command the battalion with the rank of

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on 2 March 1898. His younger brother Allen "Benjamin" Bathurst also served in the regiment. The 4th Gloucesters were embodied for full-time service from 11 January 1900 to 27 July 1901 during the

Second Boer War The Second Boer War ( af, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the Sout ...

, serving on the island of

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guarding Boer prisoners. In recognition of his services, Bathurst was appointed a Companion of the

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(CMG) in the South African Honours list published on 26 June 1902. Earl Bathurst retired from the 4th Gloucesters on 2 March 1908, just before it was disbanded, but on 22 September that year he was appointed Honorary Colonel of the 5th Gloucesters, a battalion in the new

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,''London Gazette'', 16 October 1908.
/ref> to which his brother Benjamin had just been appointed as commanding officer. He retained the position until 1933. He was also president of the Gloucestershire Territorial Association and was awarded the

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(TD).

Marriage and family

On 15 November 1893, Bathurst married the Honourable Lilias Margaret Frances Borthwick, only daughter of

Algernon Borthwick, 1st Baron Glenesk Algernon Borthwick, 1st Baron Glenesk JP (27 December 1830 – 24 November 1908), known as Sir Algernon Borthwick, Bt, between 1887 and 1895, was a British journalist and Conservative politician. He was the owner of the ''Morning Post'' (which m ...

, owner of ''

The Morning Post ''The Morning Post'' was a conservative daily newspaper published in London from 1772 to 1937, when it was acquired by ''The Daily Telegraph''. History The paper was founded by John Bell. According to historian Robert Darnton, ''The Morning Po ...

'' and his wife Alice Beatrice Lister, daughter of the novelist

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, and his wife

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. They had four children: *Lady Meriel Olivia Bathurst (3 September 1894 – 18 January 1936). She married Captain Lord Alastair Mungo Graham, son of

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. *Lt-Col

Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley Allen Algernon Bathurst, Lord Apsley, DSO, MC, TD, DL (3 August 1895 – 17 December 1942) was a British Army officer and Conservative Party politician. Early life Apsley was the eldest son of Seymour Bathurst, 7th Earl Bathurst and his wi ...

(3 August 1895 – killed on active service 17 December 1942) *Hon. William Ralph Seymour Bathurst (21 September 1903 – 10 September 1970). He married Helen Winifred Heathcoat-Amory, daughter of Lt-Col Harry William Ludovic Heathcote Heathcoat-Amory, of the

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. *Hon. Ralph Henry Bathurst (26 September 1904 – 5 December 1965). Countess Lilias Road in Cirencester is named after Lady Bathurst.

''Morning Post''

At the time of their marriage, it was expected that the ''

Morning Post ''The Morning Post'' was a conservative daily newspaper published in London from 1772 to 1937, when it was acquired by ''The Daily Telegraph''. History The paper was founded by John Bell. According to historian Robert Darnton, ''The Morning Po ...

'' would be inherited by Oliver Borthwick, a younger brother of his wife. However Oliver predeceased his father on 23 March 1905, and Bathurst's wife Lilias became the only legal heir of her father. Lord Glenesk died on 24 November 1908. His estate was inherited by his only surviving child. ''The Morning Post'' was then co-owned by Bathurst and his wife. It was under their ownership, in 1920, that the paper published a series of articles based on the so-called ''

Protocols of the Elders of Zion ''The Protocols of the Elders of Zion'' () or ''The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion'' is a fabricated antisemitic text purporting to describe a Jewish plan for global domination. The hoax was plagiarized from several ...

''. These were collected the same year and published in London and New York in book form under the title of ''

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''. The Bathursts sold the paper to a

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organized by the 8th Duke of Northumberland in 1924.

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