BATESON, SIR ROBERT, 1 Baronet (_only son of Thomas Bateson 1752–1811_). _b._ 13 March 1780; sheriff of county Down 1809; created a baronet 18 Dec. 1818; M.P. for Londonderry 16 Aug. 1830 to May 1842. _d._ Belvoir park, Belfast 21 April 1863. BATESON, SIR ROBERT HARVEY, 2 Baronet. _b._ 1787; succeeded his uncle 1825. _d._ Castruse, co. Donegal 15 April 1870. BATESON, REV. WILLIAM HENRY (_son of Richard Bateson of Liverpool, merchant_). _b._ Liverpool 3 June 1812; ed. at Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. 1846, D.D. 1857; fellow of his college Feb. 1837, senior bursar 1846 to 2 Feb. 1857, master 2 Feb. 1857 to death; V. of Madingley, Cambs. 1843–47; public orator 26 Oct. 1848 to 2 Feb. 1857; sec. of a commission to inquire into state of Univ. of Cam. 1850; vice chancellor 1858. _d._ St. John’s college lodge, Cambridge 27 March 1881. _The Eagle, No. lxv_, (1881); _Cambridge Review ii_, 258 (1881). BATHER, LUCY ELIZABETH (_dau. of Right Rev. Charles James Blomfield 1786–1857 bishop of London_). _b._ Fulham 31 March 1836; author of _Footprints on the sands of time, Biographies for young people_ 1860 and a number of stories for children under pseudonym of Aunt Lucy. (_m._ 29 Aug. 1861 Arthur Henry Bather of Meole Brace, Shropshire). _d._ The hall Meole Brace 5 Sep. 1864. BATHGATE, REV. WILLIAM (_youngest son of Wm. Bathgate of Buckholmside, Galashiels, engineer_). _b._ Buckholmside 28 Sep. 1820; studied at Glasgow Univ. and Theological academy 1840–44; expelled from the academy May 1844 for opinions supposed to be heretical; minister of Independent church at Stair 6 Dec. 1844, of Bridgeton church Glasgow 1846, of church at Ayr 1847, of church at Forres 1849, of Evangelical Union church Clerk’s lane, Kilmarnock Aug. 1847 to Nov. 1860 and of Winton place ch. Kilmarnock 11 Nov. 1860 to death; author of _The moral character of God_ 1849; _Æternitas_ 1851; _The Soul’s Arena_ 1852; _Essays on a superior popular literature_ 1854; _Christ and man_ 1865. _d._ Kilmarnock 28 Dec. 1879. _Progressive religion, Sermons and selections from the manuscripts of Wm. Bathgate, D.D._ 1884. BATHURST, HENRY GEORGE BATHURST, 4 Earl (_eld. child of Henry Bathurst, 3 Earl Bathurst 1762–1834_). _b._ Apsley house, Piccadilly 24 Feb. 1790; comr. of the India board 1812–18; M.P. for Weobley 15 Jany. 1812 to 29 Sep. 1812 and for Cirencester 12 Oct. 1812 to 27 July 1834, when he succeeded as 4 Earl. _d._ Cirencester 25 May 1866.