13-1065: Benjamin Bathurst may refer to: Sir Benjamin Bathurst (courtier) (c. 1639–1704), MP for Bere Alston & New Romney, Cofferer of the Household, British East India Company's governor Benjamin Bathurst (politician, born 1692) (1692–1767), MP for Cirencester, 1713–1727, Gloucester 1727–1754, and Monmouth, 1754–1767; younger brother of the 1st Earl Bathurst Benjamin Bathurst (1711–1767) , MP for Gloucestershire, 1734–1741, and Cirencester, 1754–1761 Benjamin Bathurst (diplomat) (1784–1809?), British diplomat who disappeared in 1809; third son of Henry Bathurst, Bishop of Norwich Benjamin Bathurst (politician, born 1872) (1872–1947), MP for Cirencester in 1895–1906 and 1910–18; third son of sixth Earl Bathurst Benjamin Bathurst, 2nd Viscount Bledisloe (1899–1979), British barrister Sir Benjamin Bathurst (Royal Navy officer) (born 1936), First Sea Lord, 1993–1995; grandson of
26-547: A London Alderman. He was also made Treasurer to the Duke of York (later James II of England ) and in 1682 was knighted. He entered Parliament in 1685 to represent New Romney as a government nominee, but then chose to represent Bere Alston instead, for which he had also been elected. He held that seat until the election of 1689. He was deputy governor of the East India Company in 1686-68 and 1695–96 and governor in 1688–90. He
39-581: A daughter. His 3 sons all became MPs themselves and were Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst (born 1684), Peter Bathurst (1687) and Benjamin Bathurst (1692) . New Romney (UK Parliament constituency) New Romney was a parliamentary constituency in Kent , which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1371 until 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act . New Romney
52-628: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Benjamin Bathurst (courtier) Sir Benjamin Bathurst ( c. 1639 – 1704) was an English courtier, politician and slave trader who served as a governor of the East India and Levant companies and a Cofferer of the Household . He was born the 6th surviving son of George Bathurst of Theddingworth, Leicestershire and his first wife Elizabeth Villiers of Hothorpe Hall , Northamptonshire . His family were supporters of King Charles I and after
65-721: The MP for Cirencester above Sir Ben Bathurst (born 1964), British general, son of the Royal Navy officer above See also [ edit ] Earl of Bathurst [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Bathurst&oldid=1146788017 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
78-433: The accession of Queen Anne , he was appointed Cofferer of the Household and again elected to Parliament to represent New Romney, holding both positions until his death in 1704. Although Anne had been convinced of his dishonesty for several years, her friendship with his wife seems to have secured his position. He had married Frances , the daughter of Sir Allen Apsley of Westminster and Frances Petre, and had 3 sons and
91-524: The despairing Whig MP, Rose Fuller , explained to Prime Minister Newcastle that he had no chance of re-election since Dering had turned against him, because "several of the governing men are graziers and the Deering and Furnese family have together a very great estate in the neighbouring marsh which is very profitable to and easy for tenants" . The reduction in the number of voters naturally made this influence easier, or at least cheaper, to exert. New Romney
104-518: The latter's execution, he chose to move to live in Cadiz . On his return to England as a wealthy man he married Frances Apsley, a close friend of Princess Anne, who obtained for him a position as Treasurer of her Household, which he retained despite mounting evidence over the years that he was embezzling money from Anne and her husband. He bought the manor of Paulerspury in Northamptonshire and became
117-565: The law meant that New Romney was sometimes considered to be a "treasury borough" (that is, a constituency whose seats were in the gift of the government); but in practice the Dering family, local landowners, were even more influential and could sometimes defy government pressure. The Dering influence in New Romney seems mainly to have been achieved by letting out property to voters and their relatives at easy rents and without leases. In 1761, for example,
130-471: The population of the constituency was 978, and the town contained 165 houses. The right to vote was reserved to the Mayor and Common Council of the town; however, many of these were customs or excise officers, who were disqualified from voting by a change in the law in 1782, so that in the early 19th century there were only 8 voters. The high proportion of voters holding paid government posts before this change in
143-399: Was a Cinque Port , which made it technically of different status from a parliamentary borough , but the difference was purely a nominal one. The constituency consisted of the town of New Romney ; it had once been a flourishing port but by the 19th century the harbour had been destroyed and there was no maritime trade, the main economic activity being grazing cattle on Romney Marsh . In 1831,
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#1732890527100156-721: Was a deputy-governor of the Royal Africa Company in 1680–82 and a sub-governor in 1682–4, 1685-6 and 1689–90. He was deputy governor of the Levant Company in 1686-87 and governor in 1688–89 and 1695. He was also Deputy Governor of the Leeward Islands . With his senior appointments in the Royal Africa Company and the East India Company, Bathurst was heavily involved in the slave trade. The Royal Africa Company
169-570: Was set up in 1660 to trade along the west coast of Africa. It shipped approximately 100,000 African slaves to the Americas (primarily the Caribbean). In 1700, Bathurst purchased Cirencester Park with earnings from commodities including Gold, Silver, cloth and spices as well as the proceeds of slavery. It is still owned by the Bathurst family. When Bathurst died, he left a fortune great enough to endow all three of his sons with country estates. In 1702, on
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