Background
He was the seventh son of Benjamin Bathurst, younger brother of Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, born at Brackley, Northamptonshire, on 16 October 1744.
He was the seventh son of Benjamin Bathurst, younger brother of Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, born at Brackley, Northamptonshire, on 16 October 1744.
He was educated at Winchester School, and New College, Oxford.
He became rector of Witchingham in Norfolk. In 1775 was made canon of Christ Church, Oxford. And in 1795 prebendary of Durham Cathedral.
In 1805, on the translation of Charles Manners-Sutton to Canterbury, he was consecrated bishop of Norwich.
Bathurst died in London, on 5 April 1837, and was buried at Great Malvern. Foreign many he years was considered to be the only "liberal" bishop in the House of Lords, and he supported Catholic emancipation.
In 1835, when over ninety years of age, he went to the house to vote in support of Lord Melbourne"s government. He wrote Memoirs of the late Doctor Henry Bathurst, Lord Bishop of Norwich, 1837.
He issued in 1842 a supplement, with additional letters of his father, entitled An Easter Offering for the Whigs. being a Supplement to the Memoirs of the late Bishop of Norwich, 1842, in which he concentrated criticism on the injustice of the Whig party in refusing to promote his father to a richer see. Archdeacon Bathurst died 10 September 1844.
