Person
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst
British peer and politician
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, KG, PC (May 22, 1762 – July 27, 1834) is a High Tory, High Church Pittite from the end of the Second Empire.
For thirty years an MP and whence ennobled one of the government's main stalwarts on Colonial policy.
Not a good speaker in debates, he is nevertheless a competent administrator; and if rather dull he remains intensely loyal and at the center of government for longer than all his contemporaries.
A personal friend of William Pitt, he becomes a broker of deals across cabinet factions during the volatile Napoleonic era.
After the wars he is on the 'conservative' wing of the Tory party but comes around towards arbitrating on a less than harsh colonial regime.