BATHURST, John (d. 1659), of St Anne Blackfriars, London, and Clints, Marske, Yorks.

Family and Education

2nd s. of John Bathurst of Goudhurst, Kent, and Dorothy, da. of Edward Maplesden of Marden.Thoresby, Ducatus Leodiensis, 16. educ. Pembroke Coll. Camb. Mich. 1614, BA 1617-18, MA 1621, ?incorp. MA Oxf. 1643.Al. Cant. m. 27 Jan. 1636, Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Brian Willance of Clints, 8s. (2 d.v p.) 4da. (1 d.v.p.).Thoresby, Ducatus Leodiensis, 16; PROB11/301, ff. 215-221. d. 26 Apr. 1659.Musgrave’s Obituary ed. G. J. Armitage (Harl. Soc. xliv), 124.

Offices Held

Local: schoolmaster, Richmond g.s. 28 Aug. 1620–20 May 1629.Clarkson, Richmond, 194. Commr. assessment, London 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; militia, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.

Medical: MD (Oxf.) 22 Dec. 1637. Fell. Royal Coll. of Physicians of London, 22 Dec. 1637; censor, 1641 – 42, 1650 – 51; elect (sen. fell.), 7 Aug. 1657–d.Royal Coll. of Physicians of London [RCP], Annals, vol. 3, ff. 187v, 211v; vol. 4, ff. 30, 69; Roll of the Royal Coll. of Physicians of London ed. W. Munk, i. 222. Priv. physician to Oliver Cromwell* by 1651–8.Mems. of Anne, Lady Halkett, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe ed. J. Loftus, 135.

Parlimentarian

BATHURST, John (d. 1659), of St Anne Blackfriars, London, and Clints, Marske, Yorks.

: of St Anne Blackfriars, London and Clints, Yorks., Marske.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, C. Johnson, 1637.Royal Coll. of Physicians, London.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

BATHURST, John (d. 1659), of St Anne Blackfriars, London, and Clints, Marske, Yorks.

Will

23 Apr. 1659, pr. 1 Sept. 1659.PROB11/301, f. 214v.

Estates

in 1655, obtained lease of lead and coal mines in Arkengarthdale, Yorks.VCH N. Riding, i. 36. In 1656, purchased manors of Arkengarthdale, Braworth, Great Langton, Middleham and Richmond.VCH N. Riding, i. 38; C. Raine, ‘Marske in Swaledale’, YAJ vi. 269. At d. estate inc. his main residence in Blackfriars and three adjoining tenements; a house on The Strand, outside Temple Bar, formerly called The Mermaid ‘and now known by the sign of the George’; a shop in the Royal Exchange; land and tenements in Rotherhithe and Cuckold’s Haven, Barking, Essex; the manors of Arkengarthdale, Braworth, Marton-in-Cleveland, New Forest, Skutterskelfe and Thoralby, Yorks.; the ‘manor, tenement or farm of Clints’; lands in the parishes of Kirby Hill and Great Langton, Yorks.; lead mines and smelting mills in Arkengarthdale, New Forest and Clints; messuages and lands in the town and town fields of Richmond; and several leases and tithes in co. Dur.PROB11/301, ff. 215-220v; E134/34CHAS2/MICH37; C7/50/72; The Case of Theodore Bathurst (1689), 2. At his death, his landed estate was reckoned to be worth £2,000 a year and his personal estate was valued at £8,000.C5/457/55; W. Turner, Compleat Hist. of the Most Remarkable Providences (1697), ch. 76, p. 96.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Cambridge (1637);RCP, Annals, vol. 3, f. 187v. The Old Bailey, London (by Nov. 1643).SP19/63, f. 95.

Religion

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