He was admitted a commoner of Wadham College, Oxford on 12 April 1712, where he was subsequently elected a scholar.
[1] As fellow of Dulwich College, Bolton took up residence there on 10 March 1722, but resigned his fellowship on 1 May 1725.
He then moved to Kensington, depending mainly on his personal fortune, and became close to William Whiston, from he had introductions to both Jekyll and Lord Hardwicke.
His most typical work was Deity's Delay in punishing the Guilty considered on the Principles of Reason (1751).
Bolton issued a collection of short works on the Choice of Company, on Intemperance in Eating and Drinking, on Pleasure, on Public Worship, and Letter to a young Nobleman on leaving School (1761 and 1762).