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EARLS See also: ALLEN See also: BATHURST, 1st See also: Earl Bathurst (1684-1775), was the eldest son of See also: Sir Benjamin Bathurst (d
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1704), by his wife, Frances (d
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1727), daughter of Sir Allen Apsley of Apsley, See also: Sussex, and belonged to a See also: family which is said to have settled in Sussex before the Norman See also: Conquest
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He was educated at Trinity See also: College, See also: Oxford, and became member of parliament for Cirencester in May 1705, retaining his seat until See also: December 1711, when he was created Baron Bathurst of Battles-den, See also: Bedfordshire
.
As a zealous Tory he defended See also: Atterbury, See also: bishop of Rochester, and in the See also: House of Lords was an opponent of Sir Robert Walpole
.
After Walpole See also: left office in 1742 he was made a privy councillor, and in See also: August 1772 was created Earl
Bathurst, having previously received a pension of £2000 a See also: year chargeable upon the Irish revenues
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He died on the 16th of See also: September 1775, and was buried in Cirencester See also: church
.
In
See also: July 1704 Bathurst married his See also: cousin, See also: Catherine (d
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1768), daughter of Sir See also: Peter Apsley, by whom he had four sons and five daughters
.
The earl associated with the poets and scholars of the See also: time
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See also: Pope, See also: Swift, See also: Prior, Sterne, and Congreve were among his See also: friends
.
He is described in Sterne's Letters to Eliza; was the subject of a graceful reference on the See also: part of Burke speaking in the House of See also: Commons; and the letters which passed between him and Pope are published in Pope's See also: Works, vol. viii
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(See also: London, 1872)
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