Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, English politician (died 1834)

Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst

British politician (1762–1834)

Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, was a High Tory, High Church Pittite. He was an MP for thirty years before ennoblement. A personal friend of William Pitt the Younger, he became a broker of deals across cabinet factions during the Napoleonic era. After the Napoleonic Wars,…