George Bathurst

Citations

1. [S103] Clarence E. Pearsall, History of the Pearsall Family, Volume II, Chapter 26, section 2, pages 897-898
   2. George Bathurst, of the Inner Temple, who married Elizabeth Villers of Hothorp, Northamptonshire. His daughter, Helena, married John Pearsall, of Hallen als Hawne in County Worcester. [Chapter 18, Section 8, Division D.]
2. [S850] Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple is one of the four Inns of Court around the Royal Courts of Justice in London which may call members to the Bar and so entitle them to practise as barristers. (The other Inns are Middle Temple, Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn.)
   The Temple was occupied in the twelfth century by the Knights Templar, who gave the area its name, and built the Temple Church which survives as the parish church of the Inner Temple and Middle Temple. The Inner Temple was first recorded as being used for legal purposes when lawyers' residences were burned down in Wat Tyler's revolt. It is an independent extra-parochial area, historically not governed by the City of London Corporation (although geographically within the boundaries and liberties of the City of London) and equally outside the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Bishop of London.
   The Inn suffered heavily from wartime bombing between September 1940 and May 1941, because of its proximity to the Thames. The buildings destroyed included the Library and the Hall although others, such as 2 King's Bench Walk, were fortunate to survive.
   The oldest surviving buildings in the Inner Temple date from the seventeenth century and are on King's Bench Walk (named after the King's Bench Office which was there until the nineteenth century), though the first storey of the Knights Templars' medieval buttery (where food was served) survives as part of the larger building that contains the rebuilt Inner Temple Hall. Many other parts of the Inn are Victorian.
3. [S853] Arthur Collins, Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical
   , Volume V: page 83 - This George Bathurst had with her [elizabeth] the manor of Howthorpe, in Northamptonshire, where he settled. He died April I9th, 1651, aged sixty-nine, and was buried at Howthorpe, having had
   issue thirteen sons and four daughters ...