[1] Bathe was commissioned into the Scots Fusilier Guards in 1839[2] and served in the Crimean War, during which he was Second-in-Command of his battalion at the Siege of Sevastopol.

[1] Bathe's father died in March 1870, and this removed the final objection to his marrying Charlotte Clare, with whom he had been living for about thirteen years out of wedlock.

They were Viscountess Burnham, Lady Somerleyton, Mrs Winifred McCalmont and Maximilian John de Bathe.

The 90-year-old Dowager, Lady de Bathe, confirmed the facts in an affidavit, and the petition was granted.

[6] Hugo Gerald de Bathe was their first son born in wedlock (1871) and remained the heir to the baronetcy despite the legitimation of his older brother.