Bathurst served as a clerk to the Teller of the Exchequer and in 1812, he was appointed a Commissioner of the India Board, a post he held for the next six years.
[1] He was elected to the House of Commons as one of two representatives for Weobley in January 1812, sitting until October the same year.
On 24 January 1813 he was commissioned as Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant to raise the Royal Cotswold Local Militia at Cirencester.
Bathurst died at his country residence, Oakley Park, Cirencester, on 25 May 1866 aged 76 after a long illness.
[4] His body lay in state until it was interred on the estate in front of thousands of mourners.