Other Events:

• Education: From 22 April 1779, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; Christ Church, University of Oxford
• Office: From 1783 to 1789; A Lord of the Admiralty
• Office: From 1783 to 1794; Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Cirencester
• Office: From 1789 to 1791; A Lord of the Treasury
• Office: From 1790 to 1834; Teller of the Exchequer
• Decoration: 1793; Privy Councillor (P.C.)
• Office: From 1793 to 1802; Commissioner of the India Board
• Office: 21 June 1793; Privy Councillor (P.C.)
• Hereditary Title: 6 Aug. 1794; 3rd Earl Bathurst, of Bathurst, co. Sussex [U.K., 1772]
• Office: From 1801 to 1834; Clerk of the Crown
• Office: From 1804 to 1806; Master of the Mint
• Office: From 1807 to 1812; Master of the Mint
• Office: From 1807 to 1812; President of the Board of Trade and Plantations
• Office: From Oct. 1809 to Dec. 1809; Foreign Secretary
• Office: From 1812 to 1827; Secretary for War and Colonies
• Degree: 16 June 1814; Doctor of Civil Law (D.C.L.) (Oxon.)
• Decoration: 24 July 1817; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
• Office: From 1823 to 1834; Elder Brother of the Trinity House
• Office: From 1828 to 1830; Lord President of the Council
• Probate: Sept. 1834

Notes:

"He was a very amiable man and with a good understanding, though his talents were far from brilliant. A High Churchman and a High Tory, but a cool politician, a bad speaker, a good writer, greatly averse to changes, but unwillingly acquiescing in many. He was nervous and reserved, with a good deal of humour, and habitually a jester."

Birth:
BP2003 (volume 1, page 293) states date of birth as 22 February 1762.

Office:
Tory

Office:
Jointly 1801–16 and solely 1816–34.

Buried:
He was removed to Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

Henry married Georgina Lennox on 1 April 1789. Georgina (daughter of General Lord George Henry Lennox and Lady Louisa Kerr) was born on 6 Dec. 1765 in Goodwood, Sussex, England; died on 20 Jan. 1841 in Charles Street, Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London, Middlesex, England; was buried on 22 Jan. 1841 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]