Allen Bathurst, 9th Earl Bathurst

British peer, landowner and conservationist

Hilary George

(m. 1986; div. 1994)

Sara Chapman

(m. 1996)

IssueBenjamin Bathurst, Lord Apsley
Lady Rosie BathurstParentsHenry Bathurst, 8th Earl Bathurst
Judith Mary Nelson

Allen Christopher Bertram Bathurst, 9th Earl Bathurst (born 11 March 1961), known as Lord Apsley until 2011, is a British peer, landowner and property developer.^[1]

Life

The son of Henry Bathurst, 8th Earl Bathurst, and his wife Judith Mary Nelson, he was styled as Lord Apsley from birth.^[2]^[3]

He administers the 15,500 acres (6,300 ha) Bathurst estate in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. It includes much of the villages of Sapperton and Coates, Pinbury Park, and the principal source of the River Thames. Within the estate is the Ivy Lodge polo ground, home of Cirencester Park Polo Club.^[4]

On 16 October 2011, he succeeded his father as Earl Bathurst (1772), Baron Bathurst of Battlesden (1712), and Lord Apsley (1771), all in the peerage of Great Britain.^[5]

In 2018 he was living with his wife Sara at Cirencester House, the family seat.^[4]

Lord Bathurst is active in the National Farmers Union and is the founding Director of the annual Cotswold Show, held every July on his estate. He is a past governor of the Royal Agricultural University, a director of the Gloucestershire Farming Trust, and a past President of the Three Counties Agricultural Society.^[6]^[5]

Lord Bathurst is President of the Cirencester Band,^[7] and patron of the Cirencester Male Voice Choir.^[8] He is Master of the St Lawrence Hospital charity, which owns almshouses in Cirencester,^[9] and Steward of the 300 year old Cirencester Society in London.^[10]

Personal life

In 1986, as Lord Apsley, he married firstly Hilary Jane George; they were divorced in 1994, having had two children.^[2]^[3]

In February 1993, he was convicted of drink-driving.^[11]

On 5 June 1995, at Cirencester, he married secondly Sara L. Chapman.^[2]^[3]

References

^ "Lord Bathurst's Cirencester land development bid approved". BBC News. 16 January 2018. Archived from the original on 16 March 2024. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c Peter W. Hammond, ed. (1998). The Complete Peerage. Vol. XIV. Stroud: Sutton Publishing. p. 73.
^ ^a ^b ^c Burke's Peerage. Vol. 1. 2003. p. 215.
^ ^a ^b Doughty, Eleanor (8 November 2018). "Big enough to be stately, small enough to be cosy". The Sunday Telegraph. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 18 February 2023 – via PressReader.
^ ^a ^b "Bathurst, 9th Earl cr. 1772 (Allen Christopher Bertram Bathurst) (Baron Bathurst, 1712; Baron Apsley, 1771". Who's Who. 1 December 2022. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U5624. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
^ Shelley, Alan (October 2011). "Our patron". freemen-few.org.uk. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
^ "President The Earl Bathurst". Cirencester Band.
^ "About the Choir". Cirencester Male Voice Choir.
^ Dix, Shaun (29 November 2013). "Cirencester housing charity opens new almshouse for first time in over 20 years". Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard.
^ Glennon, Andrea (11 September 2011). "Cirencester Society in London helps out Cirencester apprentice". Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard.
^ "Peer convicted". The Independent. 10 February 1993. Archived from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 24 November 2020.

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Preceded by Henry Bathurst	Earl Bathurst 2011–present	Incumbent Heir apparent: Benjamin Bathurst, Lord Apsley

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