Allen Bathurst, 6th Earl Bathurst

He was commissioned as an ensign in the Royal South Gloucestershire Light Infantry Militia on 16 May 1851[2] and was promoted to lieutenant on 4 May 1853.

[4] During the invasion scare of 1859–60 he raised the 9th (Cirencester) Gloucestershire Rifle Volunteer Corps on 13 February 1860 with the rank of captain,[5] beginning a long family association with what became the 5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment.

He retained his commission in the militia and was promoted to major on 22 March 1870[6] and to the honorary rank of lieutenant-colonel on 3 May 1876.

Mr Allen Bathurst, as he was until 1878, married on 31 Jan 1862, in the Tabley Chapel, Great Budworth, the Hon.

They had one daughter: Lord Bathurst died in August 1892, aged 59, and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son Seymour.