Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst
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The Earl Bathurst | |
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President of the Board of Trade | |
In office 31 March 1807 – 29 September 1812 | |
Monarch | George III |
Prime Minister | The Duke of Portland Spencer Perceval The Earl of Liverpool |
Preceded by | The Lord Auckland |
Succeeded by | The Earl of Clancarty |
Foreign Secretary | |
In office 11 October 1809 – 6 December 1809 | |
Monarch | George III |
Prime Minister | Spencer Perceval |
Preceded by | George Canning |
Succeeded by | The Marquess Wellesley |
Secretary of State for War and the Colonies | |
In office 11 June 1812 – 30 April 1827 | |
Monarchs | George III George IV |
Prime Minister | The Earl of Liverpool |
Preceded by | Viscount Castlereagh |
Succeeded by | The Viscount Goderich |
Lord President of the Council | |
In office 26 January 1828 – 22 November 1830 | |
Monarchs | George IV William IV |
Prime Minister | The Duke of Wellington |
Preceded by | The Duke of Portland |
Succeeded by | The Marquess of Lansdowne |
Personal details | |
Born | 22 May 1762 |
Died | 27 July 1834 London | (aged 72)
Nationality | British |
Political party | Tory |
Spouse(s) | Lady Georgina Lennox (1765-1846) |
Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst KG PC (22 May 1762 – 27 July 1834) was a British politician.
Background and education
Lord Bathurst was the elder son of Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, by his wife Tryphena, daughter of Thomas Scawen. He was educated at Eton from 1773 to 1778 and then at Christ Church, Oxford.
Political career
Lord Bathurst was member of the British Parliament for Cirencester from 1783 until he succeeded to the earldom in August 1794. Owing mainly to his friendship with William Pitt, he was a lord of the admiralty from 1783 to 1789; a lord of the treasury from 1789 to 1791; and commissioner of the board of control from 1793 to 1802. Returning to office with Pitt in May 1804 he became Master of the Mint, and was President of the Board of Trade and Master of the Mint during the ministries of the Duke of Portland and Spencer Perceval, only vacating these posts in June 1812 to become Secretary of State for War and the Colonies under Lord Liverpool. For two months during 1809 he was in charge of the foreign office. He was Secretary for War and the Colonies until Liverpool resigned in April 1827; and deserves some credit for improving the conduct of the Peninsular War, while it was his duty to defend the government concerning its treatment of Napoleon Bonaparte.[1]
Bathurst's official position caused his name to be mentioned frequently during the agitation for the abolition of slavery, and with regard to this traffic he seems to have been animated by a humane spirit. The current capital of The Gambia, Banjul, was originally named Bathurst after the earl.[citation needed] He was Lord President of the Council in the government of the Duke of Wellington from 1828 to 1830, and favoured the removal of the disabilities of Roman Catholics, but was a sturdy opponent of the Reform Bill of 1832. The Earl, who had four sons and two daughters, died on 27 July 1834. Bathurst was made a Knight of the Garter in 1817, and held several lucrative sinecures.[1]
Family
Lord Bathurst married Lady Georgiana, daughter of Lord George Henry Lennox, in April 1789. He died in July 1834, aged 72, and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son, Henry. His daughter Lady Emily Charlotte Bathurst (d. 1877) married Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby. Lady Bathurst died in January 1841, aged 75.
Legacy
Bathurst was portrayed by Christopher Lee in the South African television series Shaka Zulu.
- Places named after Bathurst
- Bathurst County, New South Wales, Australia
- Bathurst, New South Wales, regional city in Australia
- Bathurst Island (Northern Territory), Australia
- Bathurst Island, Nunavut, Canada
- Bathurst Street, Toronto, Canada
- Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada
- Bathurst, town in the Eastern Cape of South Africa
Notes
- ^ a b Chisholm 1911.
References
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bathurst, Earls". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
- Kebbel, Thomas Edward (1885). Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co. . In
- Thompson, Neville. "Bathurst, Henry, third Earl Bathurst (1762–1834)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1696. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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