Caroline Champion de Crespigny (1797–1861) was an early 19th-century English poet and translator. In the tradition of Romanticism, she published My Souvenir, or, Poems in 1844. Her translations, mainly from German into English, were often made in collaboration with Thomas Medwin, the cousin and biographer of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Early life Caroline Champion de Crespigny was born Caroline Bathurst at Durham in 1797 into a political and literary family. At the time of her birth her father Rt Rev Dr Henry Bathurst (1744–1837) was prebendary canon at Durham Cathedral, later becoming Bishop of Norwich. Her uncle, Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst (1684- 1775) was a Government minister and literary patron and friend of, amongst others, Laurence Sterne and William Congreve Her mother was Grace Coote, a sister of Sir Eyre Coote, a military governor of Jamaica. One of her siblings Benjamin Bathurst gained notoriety during the Napoleonic War by his sudden, unexplained disappearance. In her early twenties she may have been a mistress of Lord Byron as opined in letters by Julie Gmelin. Whilst this is a possibility it may also be dubious speculation from Gmelin, who also records her as an accomplished harpist and harpsichord player. A number of watercolours also survive her. In July 1820 Caroline Bathurst married Heaton Champion de Crespigny, later vicar of Neatishead in Norfolk, settling in Vevey in Switzerland where their first child Eyre was born in May 1821. Her husband was profligate, and family letters written by Bishop Bathurst detail that by 1828 Heaton was in serious debt and unable to adequately support his wife and children who were living in Cheltenham in destitution.In 1833 Heaton was declared legally insolvent. The marriage had ended by 1837 when her father died and she came into her own money. Heidelberg

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Caroline Champion de Crespigny (1797–1861) was an early 19th-century English poet and translator. In the tradition of Romanticism, she published My Souvenir, or, Poems in 1844. Her translations, mainly from German into English, were often made in collaboration with Thomas Medwin, the cousin and biographer of Percy Bysshe Shelley.