BATHURST, EARLS. ALLEN BATHURST, Ist Earl Bath urst (1684-17 7 5 ), was the eldest son of Sir Benjamin Bathurst (d. 1704), by his wife, Frances (d. 1727), daughter of Sir Allen Apsley of Apsley, Sussex, and belonged to a family which is said to have settled in Sussex before the Norman Conquest. He was educated at Trinity college, Oxford, and became member of parliament for Cirencester in May 1705. In 1711, he was created Baron Bathurst of Battlesden, Bedfordshire. He defended Atter bury, bishop of Rochester, and in the House of Lords was an opponent of Sir Robert Walpole. After Walpole left office in 1742 he was made a privy councillor, and in Aug. 1772 was created Earl Bathurst, having previously received a pension of £ 2,00o a year chargeable upon the Irish revenues. He died on Sept. 16 Pope, Swift, Prior, Sterne and Congreve were among his friends. The letters which passed between him and Pope are published in Pope's Works, vol. viii. (London, 1872).