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词条 Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl, Baron Bathurst of Battlesden, Lord Apsley, Baron of Apsley
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Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl, Baron Bathurst of Battlesden, Lord Apsley, Baron of Apsley
British statesman
born May 20, 1714, Westminster, London, Eng.
died August 6, 1794, Oakley Grove, near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, Eng.
statesman, eldest surviving son of the 1st Earl Bathurst, whose title he inherited in 1775.
Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, Bathurst was called to the bar and in 1745 became king's counsel. As member of Parliament for Cirencester from 1735 to 1754, he was at first in opposition, as a supporter of Frederick, Prince of Wales, but after the latter's death (1751) Bathurst joined the supporters of Henry Pelham (prime minister from 1743 to 1754). Bathurst was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1754. His appointment as lord chancellor in 1771, when he was made Baron of Apsley, was unexpected, and he proved incompetent. Loyalty to Lord North led him to resign, somewhat unwillingly, in 1778, to make room for Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow, as lord chancellor in North's cabinet. Thereafter he was lord president of the council (1779–82).
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