BATHURST 29 an active opponent of the Walpole Administration. P.C. 13 July 1742; Capt. of the Gentlemen Pensioners 1742-44; Treasurer to the Prince of Wales, 1757-60. He obtained from George III a pension of ;^2,ooo a year on the Irish Establishment.(*) On 27 Aug. 1772, in his 88th year, and in the 6ist year after his first elevation to the Peerage, he was cr. EARL BATHURST OF BATHURST,n Sussex. He w., 6 July 1 704, Catherine, da. of Sir Peter Apsley (his mother's br.), by Catherine, sister of William, and da. of Samuel Fortrey; she, who became h. to her br. Peter Apsley, was bap. 6 July 1688, at St. James's, Westm., and d. 8, and was bur. 16 June 1768, at Cirencester, aged 79. M.I. He, having lived to see his s. become Lord Chancellor, d. 16 Sep. 1775, aged 90, at Cirencester, and was bur. there. M.I.(°) Will dat. 28 Apr. 1767, pr., with four codicils, 30 Oct. 1775. II. 1775. 2' Henry (Bathurst), Earl Bathurst, £5'c.,('*) 2nd, but 1st surv. s. and h., b. 20 May 17 14, his birth being said to have been at St. James's, Westm. Matric. at Oxford (Balliol Coll.), 14 May 1730.Q Barrister (Line. Inn), 1736. M.P. (Tory) for Ciren- cester, 1735-54; K.C. 1746; Solicitor Gen. to the Prince of Wales, 1746- 48; Attorney Gen. to the Prince of Wales 1748-51, and afterwards, 1751- 54 to the Dowager Princess of Wales. Justice of the Common Pleas, 2 May 1754, until he became Chancellor. Second Commissioner of the Great Seal 21 Jan. 1770, at the end of a year's tenure whereof "the profession was greatly surprised on finding Judge Bathurst, who was considered the most incapable of the three Commissioners, selected"(^ he Bathurst. See ante, vol. i, p. 61, note "d;" and for a similar case of 10 peerages being cr. in one day, see note sub Foley [1776], where they are set out. (*) He appears to have been a man of wit, taste and learning, and was a friend of Pope, Addison, ^c. () With regard to family names and Peerage titles, see note sub i Earl of Cadogan. Bathurst is the name of a wood in Battle, Sussex, which can be traced back to the days of Henry I. It is alleged that the family had a seat here which was destroyed in the Wars of the Roses, but their earliest known ancestor appears to be a citizen and clothier of Canterbury, temp. Henry VI. [ex inform. J. H. Round). V.G. (■=) " Till within a month of his death he constantly rode out two hours every morning, and drank his bottle of wine after dinner, and according to a well-known story, used, when advanced in life, to comment thus on the early retirement of his son (and successor in title) after dinner, ' Now we will enjoy ourselves since the old gentleman is gone to bed.'" {Collins, vol. v, p. 91). (^) His elder br., Benjamin Bathurst, sometime M.P. for Gloucester, m., 26 Nov. 1732, Elizabeth, and da. of Charles, 3rd Earl of Ailesbury, by his ist wife. She d. 5 Nov. 1796. He d., v.p. and s.p., 23 Jan. 1767, aged 56. The Peerage was claimed in 1906 by Dwight Lawrence Bathurst, of Colorado, as h. male of the body of this Benjamin Bathurst, who is stated to have emigrated to the United States. (') He is said (though no such degree is recorded in the printed list of Graduates) to have been B.A. (Ch. Ch.) in 1733. — See Judges of England, by E. Foss. {') The others were Sir Sidney Stafford Smythe, a Baron of the Exchequer, and Sir Richard Aston, a Justice of the King's Bench.
