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Bathurst (surname)
Bathurst () is a surname of Old English origin. It is a locational surname, referring to those from Bathurst manor, near Battle Abbey, Sussex. Notable people with this name include: * Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst (1684–1775), politician * Allen Bathurst, 6th Earl Bathurst (1832–1892) * Allen Bathurst, 9th Earl Bathurst (born 1961) * Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley (1895–1942), British Army officer * Benjamin Bathurst (other), many people * Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, (1867–1958) agriculturist and politician * Charles Bathurst (1754–1831), better known as Charles Bragge Bathurst, a British politician * Christopher Bathurst, 3rd Viscount Bledisloe (1934–2009) * Earl Bathurst * Elizabeth Bathurst (1655–1685), English Quaker preacher and theologian * Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst (1714–1794), lord chancellor * Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst (1762–1834), secretary for war & colonies * Henry Bathurst, 4th Earl Bathurst (1790–18 ...
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Old English
Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire .... It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo-Saxon settlers in the mid-5th century, and the first Old English literature, Old English literary works date from the mid-7th century. After the Norman conquest of 1066, English was replaced, for a time, by Anglo-Norman language, Anglo-Norman (a langues d'oïl, relative of French) as the language of the upper classes. This is regarded as marking the end of the Old English era, since during this period the English language was heavily influenced by Anglo-Norman, developing into a phase know ...
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Henry Bathurst, 4th Earl Bathurst
Henry George Bathurst, 4th Earl Bathurst (24 February 179025 May 1866), styled as Lord Apsley from 1794 to 1834, was a British peer and Tory politician. Background and education Born at Apsley House, he was the eldest son of Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, and his wife Lady Georgina, third daughter of Lord George Lennox. He was educated at Eton College and went then to Christ Church, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1811 and a Master of Arts three years later. In 1820, he received a Doctor of Civil Law degree from the University of Oxford. Career Bathurst served as a clerk to the Teller of the Exchequer and in 1812, he was appointed a Commissioner of the India Board, a post he held for the next six years. He was elected to the House of Commons as one of two representatives for Weobley in January 1812, sitting until October the same year. He then represented Cirencester until 1834, when he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the House of Lords. On 24 J ...
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William Bathurst, 5th Earl Bathurst
William Lennox Bathurst, 5th Earl Bathurst (14 February 1791 – 24 February 1878), styled The Honourable William Bathurst from 1794 to 1866, was a British peer, Tory Member of Parliament and civil servant. Bathurst was the second son of Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, and his wife Lady Georgina (née Lennox). He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in 1812. The same year, aged twenty-one, he was elected to the House of Commons as one of two representatives for Weobley (succeeding his elder brother Lord Apsley), a seat he held until 1816. He then returned to Christ Church and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1817. In 1821 he was called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn. Bathurst was a Deputy Teller of the Exchequer between 1816 and 1830 and a Commissioner for victualling the Royal Navy between 1825 and 1829 and served as Joint Secretary to the Board of Trade from 1830 to 1847 and as Joint Clerk of the Privy Council from 1830 to 1860. ...
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Walter Bathurst
Walter Bathurst (1764?–20 October 1827), was a captain in the British Royal Navy who was killed at the Battle of Navarino. Biography His father was one of the thirty-six children of Sir Benjamin Bathurst MP, the younger brother of Allen, first Earl Bathurst. One of his uncles was Dr. Henry Bathurst, bishop of Norwich. After being on the books of the guardship at Plymouth for more than a year, he was, on 5 October 1781, appointed to the , which, in the beginning of 1782, accompanied Sir George Rodney to the West Indies, and participated in the Battle of the Saintes off Dominica on 12 April. He afterwards served in the , and was made lieutenant on 15 November 1790. In April 1791 was appointed to the brig on the home station. He continued in her for nearly three years, and on 30 December 1793 was appointed to the frigate , in which he served on the Newfoundland Station, and afterwards with the fleet off Cadiz under Lord St. Vincent. In May 1797 he was transferred to the , a ...
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Seymour Bathurst, 7th Earl Bathurst
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 Allen Bathurst, 6th Earl Bathurst and Meriel Leicester Warren. His maternal grandparents were George Warren, 2nd Baron de Tabley and his wife Catharina Barbara de Salis-Saglio. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. Military career Bathurst followed his father into the part-time 4th Battalion (Royal North Gloucestershire Militia), Gloucestershire Regiment,''Army List'', various dates. and was promoted to command the battalion with the rank of lieutenant-colonel 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 d ...
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Robin Gilbert Charles Bathurst
Robin Gilbert Charles Bathurst (21 March 1920, Chelsea, London – 24 May 2006, Derwen Dêg Fawr, North Wales) was a British geologist, known as a leading expert on the diagenesis of carbonate sediments. Biography During WW II, Robin G. C. Bathurst served from 1939 to 1943 as an anti-aircraft gunner. He studied at Chelsea Polytechnic and at Imperial College London, where he graduated with a B.Sc. in 1948. From 1948 to 1951 at the University of Cambridge, he studied the Wealden Greensand under Percival Allen and graduated with an M.Sc. In 1951 Robert Millner Shackleton appointed Bathurst to teach sedimentology at the University of Liverpool. During the 1920s and 1930s, Lucien Cayeux and Bruno Sander gained international reputations for research in carbonate petrology — Bathurst went beyond their achievements in carbonate petrology and significantly contributed to geologists' understanding of limestones. In 1959 he was the first to describe radiaxial fibrous calcite (RFC). In 1 ...
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Robert Bathurst
Robert Guy Bathurst (born 22 February 1957) is an English actor. Bathurst was born in The Gold Coast (now Ghana) in 1957, where his father was working as a management consultant. In 1959 his family moved to Ballybrack, Dublin, Ireland and Bathurst attended school in Killiney and later was enrolled at Headfort, an Irish boarding school. In 1966, the family moved back to England and Bathurst transferred to Worth School in Sussex, where he took up amateur dramatics. At the age of 18, he read law at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and joined the Footlights group. After graduating, he took up acting full-time and made his professional stage debut in 1983, playing Tim Allgood in Michael Frayn's '' Noises Off'', which ran for a year at the Savoy Theatre. To broaden his knowledge of working on stage, he joined the National Theatre. He supplemented his stage roles in the 1980s with television roles, appearing in comedies such as the aborted pilot episode of ''Blackadder'', ''Che ...
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Richard Bathurst
Richard Bathurst (died 1762) was a British essayist and physician, born in Jamaica and sent to England to study medicine. His father, Colonel Bathurst, brought to England in 1750 Francis Barber, who became famous as Samuel Johnson's black servant. "My dear friend, Dr. Bathurst", said Dr. Johnson, "declared he was glad that his father, who was a West India planter, had left his affairs in total ruin, because, having no estate, he was not under the temptation of having slaves". In 1745, Bathurst took the degree of M.B. at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and afterwards studied medicine in London, where he made the acquaintance of Dr. Johnson, and was a member of the club at the King's Head. "Dear Bathurst", Johnson used to say ( Piozzi's ''Anecdotes'') "was a man to my heart's content; he hated a fool and he hated a rogue, and he hated a whig: he was a very good hater." Bathurst was a contributor to '' The Adventurer'', the newspaper conducted by Hawkesworth, with the assistance of Johnson ...
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Ralph Bathurst
Ralph Bathurst, FRS (1620 – 14 June 1704) was an English theologian and physician. Early life He was born in Hothorpe, Northamptonshire in 1620 and educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry. He graduated with a B.A. degree from Trinity College, Oxford in 1638, where he had a family connection with the President, Ralph Kettell (1563–1643). Andrew Pyle (editor), ''Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers'' (2000), pp. 74–75. Oxford science and medicine He originally intended a career in the Church of England, and was ordained in 1644, but his prospects were disrupted by the English Civil War, and he turned to medicine. He collaborated with Thomas Willis, and it was to Bathurst that Willis dedicated his first medical publication, the ''Diatribae Duae'' of 1659. Bathurst was active in the intellectual ferment of the time, and very well-connected. In the account given by John Wallis of the precursor groups to the Royal Society of London, Bathurst is ment ...
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Peter Bathurst (1723–1801)
Peter Bathurst (1723–1801) was the member of Parliament for the constituency of Eye between 1784 and 1790, and between 1792 and 1795 and a strong supporter of Pitt the Younger. References British MPs 1784–1790 1723 births 1801 deaths Peter Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a su ...
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Peter Bathurst (1687–1748)
Peter Bathurst (3 May 16871748), of Greatworth, Northamptonshire and Clarendon Park, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1711 and 1741. Bathurst was the second son of Sir Benjamin Bathurst, MP, of Paulerspury, Northamptonshire and his wife Frances Apsley, daughter of Sir Allen Apsley, MP of Apsley, Sussex. As a child he was a companion to the Duke of Gloucester, with his brother Benjamin, at the court of Princess Anne. He was educated at Eton College in about 1700, and matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford in 1703. His father left him lands in Lincolnshire. He married Leonora-Maria How, daughter of Charles How of Greatworth, Northamptonshire in 1709 and acquired part of his father-in-law's estate. His wife died in January 1720, and he married as his second wife Lady Selina Shirley, daughter of Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers on 24 October 1720. He also acquired at some stage the Clarendon Park esta ...
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John Bathurst
John Bathurst (1607–1659) was an English physician. He attended Oliver Cromwell, and was twice Member of Parliament. Life He was the second son of Dr. John Bathurst, of Goudhurst in Kent. He was born in Sussex, his mother being Dorothy, daughter of Captain E. Maplesden of Marsden, a naval officer. In December 1614 Bathurst entered the university of Cambridge as a sizar at Pembroke College, took the degree of B.A. in 1618, and that of M.A. in 1621. In 1637 he obtained the degree of M.D., and in the same year, on 22 December was admitted at once candidate and fellow of the College of Physicians, of which he was afterwards twice censor, in 1641 and 1650. On 1 February 1643 he was incorporated M.A. at Oxford. In 1653, during the First Anglo-Dutch War, he was attending the seamen of the fleet after Robert Blake's prolonged engagement in February of that year. He represented Richmond, Yorkshire, as burgess in the parliament summoned by Cromwell in 1656, and again in Richard Cro ...
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