He was born four years before Pope, and died more than thirty years later at the age of ninety-one.

One of the finest passages in Burke's American speeches turns upon the vast changes which had taken place during Bathurst's lifetime.

He lived to see his son Chancellor.

Two years before his death the son left the father's dinner-table with some remark upon the advantage of regular habits.

"Now the old gentleman's gone," said the lively youth of eighty-nine to the remaining guests, "let's crack the other bottle." Bathurst delighted in planting, and Pope in giving him advice, and in discussing the opening of vistas and erection of temples, and the poet was apt to be vexed when his advice was not taken.
Another friend, even more restless and comet-like in his appearances, was the famous Peterborough, the man who had seen more kings and postilions than any one in Europe; of whom Walsh injudiciously remarked that he had too much wit to be entrusted with the command of an army; and whose victories soon after the unlucky remark had been made, were so brilliant as to resemble strategical epigrams.