President

The Earl Bathurst

The President of Cirencester Band is The Right Honourable The Earl Bathurst.

The Earl lives with his wife The Countess Sara, Lady Bathurst, at Cirencester Park, the Bathurst family seat. The former Lord Apsley became the 9th Earl Bathurst on the death of his father in October 2011.

The Bathurst Estate, covering some 15,500 acres of countryside is based around Cirencester Park and includes much of the villages of Sapperton and Coates as well as the principal source of the River Thames. Within the estate is Ivy Lodge Polo Ground, the oldest playing polo ground in the United Kingdom and home to Cirencester Park Polo Club (founded 1894). The Earl also runs Cirencester Park Farms which farms 4,500 acres of arable crops, partially organic, and a herd of Gloucester Cattle.

The Earl is a director of the Cirencester Housing Society and Marshall of the St Lawrence Hospital Trust. He is also the founding Director of the annual Cotswold Show and a Patron of the Cotswolds Museum Trust.

As well as being President of Cirencester Band, the Earl is also President of The Cirencester Hospital League of Friends, The Cirencester Male Voice Choir and Cirencester Park Polo Club. He is Steward of The Cirencester Society in London and Patron of The Cirencester Cricket Club.

As a conservationist, he has campaigned to preserve the rural countryside and historic buildings. The Earl is involved in the National Farmers Union, he is President of the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG), a governor of the Royal Agricultural College, past President of the Three Counties Agricultural Society and Director of the Gloucestershire Farming Trust.