Samuel Stephen Bateson JP DL (13 October 1821 – 9 March 1879) was an Irish first-class cricketer and barrister.
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| Full name | Samuel Stephen Bateson | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 13 October 1821 Belfast, Ireland | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 9 March 1879 (aged 57) Dornoch, Sutherland, Scotland | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
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| 1844 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||
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Life
editThe son of Sir Robert Bateson, he was born at Belfast in October 1821. He was educated in England at Rugby School,[1] before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge.[2] Bateson made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Cambridge University at Cambridge in 1844.[3] Batting once in the match, he scored 3 runs in the MCC first innings before being dismissed by Henry Wroth.[4]
A student of the Inner Temple, Bateson was called to the bar in 1847.[2] He later lived in Scotland at Dornoch, where he was a justice of the peace and served as a deputy lieutenant of Sutherland in 1863.[5] Bateson was the subject of the photographer Camille Silvy's work in 1861.[6] His other interests included agricultural sciences.[2] Bateson died at his home in Dornoch in March 1879, after suffering from acute inflammation of the lungs.[7]
Family
editBateson married in 1854 Florinda Handcock, daughter of Richard Handcock, 3rd Baron Castlemaine.[8]
His brother was Thomas Bateson, 1st Baron Deramore.
References
edit- ^ The Rugby Register, from the Year 1675 to the Present Time. 1836. p. 184.
- ^ a b c "Bateson, Samuel Stephen (BT840SS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Samuel Bateson". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
- ^ "Cambridge University v Marylebone Cricket Club, 1844". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
- ^ "No. 22731". The London Gazette. 1 May 1863. p. 2325.
- ^ "Samuel Stephen Bateson". www.britishmuseum.org. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
- ^ Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries. The Belfast News-Letter. 13 March 1879. p. 1
- ^ "Collections Online Samuel Stephen Bateson, British Museum". www.britishmuseum.org.