James Bathurst

Lieutenant-General Sir James Bathurst (4 May 1782 – 13 April 1850) was a British Army commander from the Bathurst family.

Early life and family Bathurst was likely born in Oxford, where he was baptised at three weeks old to lieutenant in April 1795, and to captain in 1800. He served in Egypt against the French campaign and was present in the action around Alexandria with Sir Ralph Abercromby's army in Egypt, including the siege of Marabout. He purchased a commission in the 60th as a major in 1803, and he served with the 7th West India Regiment at Gibraltar and in the West Indies, including the Battle of Suriname (1804). He was also at the Wellington's passage of the Douro in 1809. and knighted in the same order (KCB) by William IV on 28 September 1831.

In 1816, he succeeded Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Napier as Lieutenant-Governor of the Virgin Islands.

He was appointed Governor of Berwick in 1833. They had six sons and two daughters:

Stuart Bathurst (1815–1900), an Anglican priest who converted to Catholicism during the Oxford Movement, Robert Bathurst (1817–1906) James Peter Bathurst (1818–1893) Henry Allen Bathurst (1819–1897) Caroline Bathurst (1820–1861) Sarah Louisa Bathurst (1821–) Algernon Bathurst (1823–1895) Catherine Anne Bathurst Sister Mary Catherine Philip (1825–1907) Frederick Bathurst (1827–1910)

He died at Kilworth Rectory in South Kilworth, Leicestershire.