 Ralph Bathurst was one of 17 children, 14 of them sons. He was educated at Trinity College and ordained in the Church of England in 1644. During the English civil wars, he had to seek lay employment, and so studied and became a medical doctor. After the Restoration he resumed his ministerial work, and became president of Trinity College. Though not a Puritan, he had great sympathy for the non-conformists.
Until he turned 83 and went blind, Bathurst used to attend the 5 A.M. prayers at the college every day. His humility was such that he would not allow anything of his to be published during his lifetime, and had it written into his will that nothing was to be published posthumously. |
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