Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe

Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, English politician, 4th Governor-General of New Zealand (died 1958)

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Born: September 21, 1867
Died: July 3, 1958
Zodiac sign: Virgo
Birth year: 1867

About Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe

Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, was a British Conservative politician and colonial governor. He was Governor-General of New Zealand from 1930 to 1935. In 1935, Bledisloe was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal, honorary doctorate of civil laws (DCL) from Oxford, and honorary doctorate of Law (LLD) from Edinburgh. During the First World War of 1914–1918, Bathurst joined the Royal Engineers Special Reserves, and then served in Southern Command as Assistant Military Secretary at the War Office. On his 90th birthday he endowed the Bledisloe Gold Medal for Landowners of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, to be awarded annually for the application of science or technology to some branch of British husbandry.

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Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe timeline

1914During the First World War of 1914–1918, Bathurst joined the Royal Engineers Special Reserves, and then served in Southern Command as Assistant Military Secretary at the War Office.
1935In 1935, Bledisloe was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal, honorary doctorate of civil laws (DCL) from Oxford, and honorary doctorate of Law (LLD) from Edinburgh.

The world when Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe was born

Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe was born in 1867. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

Top headlineUS purchases Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million
Technology milestoneDynamite patented by Alfred Nobel
Notable inventionDynamite
World population~1.47B

United States snapshot

U.S. leaderAndrew Johnson
U.S. population34.5M

1867 versus 2026

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Measure	1867	2026
Population	34.5M	341 million

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