RICHARD BATHURST, whose contributions to the Adventurer won him his place among English essayists of the classical period, was born in Jamaica at a date which his biographers leave uncertain. His father sent him to England to be educated, and he graduated at Cambridge in 1745. In London, where he studied medicine, he became acquainted with Dr. Samuel Johnson who, with Warton and Hawkeworth, was then contributing to the Adventurer. Boswell asserts that some of the essays attributed to Bathurst in the Adventurer series were dictated by Doctor Johnson and merely taken down by Bathurst, but this has not been demonstrated. Doctor Johnson seems to have had a high opinion of Bathurst. When Bathurst died in 1762, while doing his duty as an army surgeon in the British expedition to Cuba, Johnson quoted Virgil:—