Christopher Bathurst, 3rd Viscount Bledisloe
The Viscount Bledisloe | |
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
In office 17 September 1979 – 11 November 1999 as a hereditary peer | |
Preceded by | The 2nd Viscount Bledisloe |
Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
In office 11 November 1999 – 12 May 2009 as an elected hereditary peer | |
Preceded by | Seat created |
Succeeded by | The 5th Baron Aberdare |
Personal details | |
Born | Christopher Hiley Ludlow Bathurst 24 June 1934 |
Died | 12 May 2009 | (aged 74)
Political party | Crossbench |
Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Mary Thompson |
Alma mater | Eton College Trinity College, Oxford |
Christopher Hiley Ludlow Bathurst, 3rd Viscount Bledisloe, QC (24 June 1934 – 12 May 2009), was a British barrister and politician.
Bledisloe was the son of Benjamin Bathurst, 2nd Viscount Bledisloe. He was educated at Eton, and Trinity College, Oxford. He served in the army as a Second Lieutenant of the 11th Hussars from 1954 to 1955 and was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1959. In 1978 he became a Queen's Counsel (QC).
He was one of the ninety hereditary peers elected by the other hereditary peers to take a seat in the House of Lords, which most hereditary peers lost by the House of Lords Act 1999. The Bledisloe seat is Lydney Park, Gloucestershire, from which the territorial designation of the peerage was taken. He sat as a crossbencher.
Bledisloe married Elizabeth Mary Thompson in 1962. They had two sons and one daughter and divorced in 1986. His elder son and successor, , is a noted portrait artist. Bledisloe died on 12 May 2009.[1]
Bledisloe was the President of the St. Moritz Tobogganing Club (SMTC), also known as the Cresta.
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- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Viscount Bledisloe
- Viscount Bledisloe - Daily Telegraph obituary
- leighrayment.com
- http://www.thepeerage.com/p14421.htm#i144207
- 1934 births
- 2009 deaths
- Viscounts in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
- Hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act
- Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford
- People educated at Eton College
- English Queen's Counsel
- 11th Hussars officers
- Queen's Counsel 1901–2000
- Members of Gray's Inn
- Bathurst family
- Peerage of the United Kingdom viscount stubs