Allen Christopher Bertram Bathurst, 9th Earl Bathurst (born 11 March 1961), known as Lord Apsley until 2011, is a British peer, landowner and

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Life

The son of

Henry Bathurst, 8th Earl Bathurst Henry Allen John Bathurst, 8th Earl Bathurst Deputy Lieutenant, DL (1 May 1927 – 16 October 2011), styled Lord Apsley from 1942 to 1943, was a British peerage, peer, soldier and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician. He was most recen ...

, and his wife Judith Mary Nelson, he was styled as Lord Apsley from birth. He administers the Bathurst estate in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. It includes much of the villages of Sapperton and Coates, Pinbury Park, and the principal source of the

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. Within the estate is the Ivy Lodge polo ground, home of Cirencester Park Polo Club. On 16 October 2011, he succeeded his father as

Earl Bathurst Earl Bathurst, of Bathurst in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. The medieval English word was Botehurst, thought to date at least from the 13th century. Bote is the origination of Battle, although the family ma ...

(1772), Baron Bathurst of Battlesden (1712), and Lord Apsley (1771), all in the

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. In 2018 he was living with his wife Sara at

Cirencester House Cirencester Park is a country house in the parish of Cirencester in Gloucestershire, England, and is the seat of the Bathurst family, Earls Bathurst. It is a Grade II* listed building. The gardens are Grade I listed on the Register of Historic ...

, the family seat. 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 The Royal Agricultural University (RAU), formerly the Royal Agricultural College, is a public university in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England. Established in 1845, it was the first agricultural college in the English-speaking world. ...

, a director of the Gloucestershire Farming Trust, and a past President of the Three Counties Agricultural Society. Lord Bathurst is President of the Cirencester Band, and patron of the Cirencester

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. He is Master of the St Lawrence Hospital charity, which owns

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in Cirencester, and Steward of the 300 year old Cirencester Society in London.

Personal life

In 1986, as Lord Apsley, he married firstly Hilary Jane George; they were divorced in 1994, having had two children. In February 1993, he was convicted of drink-driving. On 5 June 1995, at Cirencester, he married secondly Sara L. Chapman.

References

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Bathurst, Earl (GB, 1772)
Cracroft's Peerage {{DEFAULTSORT:Bathurst, Allen Bathurst, 9th Earl 9 1961 births Living people People associated with the Royal Agricultural University

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Alumni of Wye College National Farmers' Union of England and Wales officials