[9] Earl Bathurst retired from the 4th Gloucesters on 2 March 1908, just before it was disbanded,[2][10] but on 22 September that year he was appointed Honorary Colonel of the 5th Gloucesters, a battalion in the new Territorial Force,[2][11] to which his brother Benjamin had just been appointed as commanding officer.

[2] On 15 November 1893, Bathurst married the Honourable Lilias Margaret Frances Borthwick,[1] only daughter of Algernon Borthwick, 1st Baron Glenesk, owner of The Morning Post and his wife Alice Beatrice Lister, daughter of the novelist Thomas Henry Lister, and his wife Maria.

At the time of their marriage, it was expected that the Morning Post would be inherited by Oliver Borthwick, a younger brother of his wife.

It was under their ownership, in 1920, that the paper published a series of articles based on the so-called Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

These were collected the same year and published in London and New York in book form under the title of The Cause of World Unrest.