Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst

The Earl Bathurst
Portrait by Godfrey Kneller
Captain of the Gentlemen Pensioners
In office
1742–1744
Preceded byThe Duke of Bolton
Succeeded byThe Lord Hobart
Personal details
Born16 November 1684
Died16 September 1775 (aged 90)
Spouse
Catherine Apsley
(m. 1704)
ChildrenHenry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst
Parent(s)Sir Benjamin Bathurst
Frances Apsley
Alma materTrinity College, Oxford

Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, PC (16 November 1684 – 16 September 1775), of Bathurst in the County of Sussex, known as The Lord Bathurst from 1712 to 1772, was a British Tory politician. Bathurst sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1705 until 1712 and then in the British House of Lords until his death in 1775, after being raised to the peerage as Baron Bathurst.