Christopher Bathurst, 3rd Viscount Bledisloe

Christopher Hiley Ludlow Bathurst, 3rd Viscount Bledisloe, QC (24 June 1934 – 12 May 2009), was the son of the second Viscount. He was educated at Eton, and Trinity College, Oxford. He served in the military as a Second Lieutenant of the 11th Hussars from 1954 to 1955 and went into law; he was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1959. In 1978 he became a Queen's Counsel (QC), as his father had before him. He married Elizabeth Mary Thompson in 1962; they divorced in 1986 and had two sons and one daughter. One son, Rupert Bathurst, is a noted portrait artist.

Lord Bledisloe was the President of the St. Moritz Tobogganing Club (SMTC) also known as the Cresta. He died on May 12, 2009.

Lord Bledisloe had the distinction of being 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. The Bathursts had been one of the leading county families in Gloucestershire for many centuries. He sat as a crossbencher.

The death of Viscount Bledisloe was announced on the 14th May 2009 to the House of Lords by the Lords' Speaker, Baroness Hayman. [1]

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

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• Viscount Bledisloe - Daily Telegraph obituary

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