Earl Bathurst and British Empire

“An accessible scholarly biography of a politician whom [Thomspon] rightly suggests has been largely neglected.” — The English Historical Review Earl Bathurst arguably exerted greater influence on the establishment and consolidation of the British Empire than any other single individual. In writing this highly authoritative work, Professor Thompson had access to the previously untapped Bathurst family archives. These private papers clearly established what Bathurst’s contemporaries well knew, th