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.
[3] He inherited the estates at Lydney, Gloucestershire and Mixbury, Oxfordshire on the death of his father in 1704.
At the 1727 British general election, he transferred to Gloucester where he was caught up in a double return.
He was appointed Outranger of Windsor Forest in 1763 which he held for the rest of his life.