Christopher Bathurst, 3rd Viscount Bledisloe

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 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, Rupert Bathurst, 4th Viscount Bledisloe, 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.

References

↑ www.publications.parliament.uk

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Viscount Bledisloe
Viscount Bledisloe - Daily Telegraph obituary
http://www.leighrayment.com/peers/peersB3.htm
http://www.thepeerage.com/p14421.htm#i144207

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Benjamin Ludlow Bathurst	Viscount Bledisloe 1979–2009	Succeeded by Rupert Edward Ludlow Bathurst

British viscounts*

In the peerages of England, Scotland and Great Britain

Hereford Falkland Arbuthnott Oxfuird Bolingbroke & St John Cobham Falmouth Torrington Hood

In the peerage of Ireland *(pre-1801)*

Gormanston Mountgarret Valentia Dillon Massereene & Ferrard Charlemont Downe Molesworth Chetwynd Midleton Boyne Gage Galway Powerscourt Ashbrook Southwell de Vesci Lifford Bangor Doneraile Harberton Hawarden

In the peerages of United Kingdom & Ireland (post-1801)

*Current substantive viscounts, listed by precedence, from highest to lowest

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