  charles bathurst, 1st viscount bledisloe, gcmg, kbe, pc (21 september 1867 â 3 july 1958), was a british conservative politician and colonial governor. he was governor-general of new zealand from 1930 to 1935. ==early life== born in london and educated at sherborne school, eton and then university college, oxford, where he studied law and graduated with a ba in 1890. ==member of parliament== bathurst worked as a barrister and conveyancer and in 1910 entered parliament representing the conservative party as mp for the south or wilton division of wiltshire. after serving as parliamentary secretary to the ministry of food, bathurst was appointed a knight commander of the order of the british empire (kbe) in 1917, and raised to the peerage as baron bledisloe, of lydney in the county of gloucester. he remained in parliament until 1928, serving as parliamentary secretary to the ministry of agriculture and fisheries from 1924 onwar
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