Lieutenant-Colonel Allen Benjamin Bathurst (25 June 1872 – 8 October 1947) was a British

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 Conservative Party

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 politician. He usually went by his middle name and was known as Benjamin Bathurst.

Bathurst was the third son of Allen Bathurst, 6th Earl Bathurst

Allen Bathurst, 6th Earl Bathurst

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, and his first wife the Hon. Meriel (née Warren). He commanded the 5th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment and achieved the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Territorial Force

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 Reserve. At the 1895 general election

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 he was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Cirencester

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, a seat he held until his defeat in 1906

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. He regained the seat at the January 1910 election and held it until the constituency was abolished at the 1918 general election

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. He was also a Deputy Lieutenant

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 of Gloucestershire

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Bathurst married Augusta Ruby, daughter of Lord Edward Spencer-Churchill, in 1902. He died in October 1947, aged 75. His grandson and namesake is the prominent naval commander Sir Benjamin Bathurst.

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