Ralph Bathurst ( 1620 - 1704 )

Birth: Hothorpe, in the parish of Thedingworth, Northamptonshire, England, Europe (1620) Death: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, Europe (14 June 1704) Education: Free School, Coventry; Gloucester Hall, Oxford; Trinity College, Oxford (BA 1638; MA 1641; BMed 1653; DMed 1654) Career: Fellow of Trinity College (1640); ordained priest (1644); at the Civil War ceased to act as a priest and became a physician; Physician to the Navy; Chaplain to the King (1663); President of Trinity College, Oxford (1664) and benefactor of the college; Rector of Garsington, Oxfordshire (1664); Dean of Wells (1670); Vice-chancellor of Oxford University (1673-1676); offered and refused bishopric of Bristol (1691); became blind towards the end of his life and died after breaking his thighbone while walking alone in Trinity College gardens Membership: Fellow Election Date: 19/08/1663 Committee appointments include: Mechanical Committee (1664) Committee for Collecting all the Phenomena of Nature hitherto observed (1664) Other RSActivity: Admitted on the same day as elected.