"Benjamin Bathurst FRS (1692– 5 November 1767) of Lydney, Gloucestershire, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons for 54 years from 1713 to 1767.
Bathurst was a younger son of Sir Benjamin Bathurst, MP and his wife Frances Apsley, daughter of Sir Allen Apsley. His father was heavily involved in the slave trade through the Royal African Company and the East India Company. Bathurst was himself a supporter of the slave trade, in his position as MP. He was educated at Eton College in 1699 and matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford 30 June 1708, aged 16. He inherited the estates at Lydney, Gloucestershire and Mixbury, Oxfordshire on the death of his father in 1704." - (Wikipedia (en) 19.05.2021)
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