Christopher Bathurst, 3rd Viscount Bledisloe

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Christopher Hiley Ludlow Bathurst, 3rd Viscount Bledisloe (born 24 June 1934) is the son of the 2nd Viscount, born in 1934, he was educated at Eton, and Trinity College, Oxford. He served in the military as a Second Lieutenant of the 11th Hussars from 1954 to 1955 and went into law, being called to the Bar at Gray's Inn, 1959. In 1978 he became a Queen's Counsel (QC), as his father had before him. He married Elizabeth Mary Thompson in 1962; they divorced in 1986 and have two sons and one daughter. One son, Rupert Bathurst, is a noted portrait artist.

Lord Bledisloe has the distinction of being one of the hereditary peers elected by the other hereditary peers to take a seat in the House of Lords, which most hereditary peers lost by the House of Lords Reform Act of 1999. The Bledisloe seat is Lydney Park, Gloucestershire, from which the territorial designation of the peerage was taken. The Bathursts had been one of the leading county families in Gloucestershire for many centuries.

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Benjamin Bathurst	Viscount Bledisloe 1979–Present	Succeeded by Current Incumbent