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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 520 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BATHURST, EARLS

BATHURST, EARLS . See also:

ALLEN BATHURST, 1st See also:

EARL

Earl Bathurst (1684-1775), was the eldest son of See also:

SIR

Sir See also:

Benjamin Bathurst (d. 1704), by his wife, Frances (d. 1727), daughter of Sir Allen Apsley of Apsley, See also:

Sussex, and belonged to a See also:

FAMILY

family which is said to have settled in Sussex before the See also:

Norman See also:

CONQUEST

Conquest. He was educated at Trinity See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

Oxford, and became member of See also:

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament for See also:

CIRENCESTER (traditionally pronounced Ciceter)

Cirencester in May 1705, retaining his seat until See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1711, when he was created See also:

Baron Bathurst of Battles-den, See also:

BEDFORDSHIRE [abbreviated Beds]

Bedfordshire. As a zealous Tory he defended See also:

ATTERBURY, FRANCIS (1662-1732)

Atterbury, See also:

bishop of See also:

Rochester, and in the See also:

House of Lords was an opponent of Sir See also:

Robert See also:

Walpole. After Walpole See also:

LEFT

left See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office in 1742 he was made a privy councillor, and in See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1772 was created Earl Bathurst, having previously received a See also:

PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension of £2000 a See also:

YEAR

year chargeable upon the Irish revenues. He died on the 16th of See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1775, and was buried in Cirencester See also:

church. In See also:

JULY

July 1704 Bathurst married his See also:

cousin, See also:

Catherine (d. 1768), daughter of Sir See also:

Peter Apsley, by whom he had four sons and five daughters. The earl associated with the poets and scholars of the See also:

time. See also:

Pope, See also:

Swift, See also:

Prior, See also:

Sterne, and See also:

Congreve were among his See also:

He is described in Sterne's Letters to Eliza; was the subject of a graceful reference on the See also:

PART

part of See also:

Burke speaking in the House of See also:

COMMONS

Commons; and the letters which passed between him and Pope are published in Pope's See also:

WORKS

Works, vol. viii. (See also:

LONDON

London, 1872).

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