He was the second son of Dr. John Bathurst, of
Goudhurst in
Kent. He was born in
Sussex, his mother being Dorothy, daughter of Captain E. Maplesden of
Marsden, a naval officer. In December 1614 Bathurst entered the
university of Cambridge as a sizar at
Pembroke College, took the degree of B.A. in 1618, and that of M.A. in 1621. In 1637 he obtained the degree of M.D., and in the same year, on 22 December was admitted at once candidate and fellow of the
College of Physicians, of which he was afterwards twice censor, in 1641 and 1650. On 1 February 1643 he was incorporated M.A. at Oxford. In 1653, during the
First Anglo-Dutch War, he was attending the seamen of the fleet after
Robert Blake's prolonged engagement in February of that year. He represented
Richmond, Yorkshire, as burgess in the parliament summoned by Cromwell in 1656, and again in
Richard Cromwell's parliament in 1658. In July 1657 he was named elect of the College of Physicians in place of
William Harvey. Bathurst was physician to Cromwell and to the family of
Sir Richard Fanshawe. When Fanshawe, after his capture at the
battle of Worcester, was kept a prisoner in London, he fell very sick from
scurvy, and Bathurst interceded for him with Cromwell, who, on the strength of the doctor's medical certificate, obtained at the council chamber the order for Fanshawe's liberation, overruling objections of
Sir Harry Vane. He was charitable, and was said to have accumulated a fortune of £2,000 a year. Bathurst married Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Brian Willance, Esq., of
Clints, Yorkshire, and had a numerous family. He died on 26 April 1659, aged 52. ==Notes==