Christopher Hiley Ludlow Bathurst, 3rd Viscount Bledisloe, QC (24 June 1934 – 12 May 2009), was a British barrister and politician.

[1] He was educated at Eton – having won a scholarship from Ludgrove – and Trinity College, Oxford, but left the latter after a year.

The Bledisloe seat is Lydney Park, Gloucestershire, from which the territorial designation of the peerage was taken.

His elder son and successor, Rupert Bathurst, 4th Viscount Bledisloe, is a noted portrait artist.

[2] Bledisloe was the President of the St. Moritz Tobogganing Club (SMTC), also known as the Cresta.