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William Bateman, 1st Viscount Bateman

English politician (1695-1744)

Field	Value
honorific prefix	The Right Honourable
name	The Viscount Bateman
image	[[File:Portrait of William 1st Viscount Bateman.jpg	250 px]]
caption	A possible portrait of Bateman by Charles-André van Loo
succession	Viscount Bateman

reign	12 July 1725 – December 1744 (19 years)
predecessor	******
successor	John Bateman
birthname	William Bateman
birth_date	1695
death_date	December 1744 (
noble family	Bateman
spouse
issue	John Bateman, 2nd Viscount Bateman

father	James Bateman of Shobdon Court
mother	Esther Searle

Baron Culmore

Captain Hon. William Bateman

William Bateman, 1st Viscount Bateman KB, FRS (1695 – December 1744) was an English Whig politician and peer who sat in the British House of Commons from 1721 to 1734, representing the constituency of Leominster.

Biography

Bateman was the son of Sir James Bateman, of Shobdon Court, Shobdon, Lord Mayor of London and Governor of the Bank of England, by his wife Esther Searle, daughter of John Searle, of Finchley, Middlesex.

Bateman was returned as Member of Parliament for Leominster at a by-election in 1721 but did not stand at the 1722 general election. In 1725 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron of Culmore, in the County of Londonderry, and Viscount Bateman. At the 1727 general election he was again elected to represent Leominster. In 1734 he was a candidate at Radnor, but was defeated and never stood for Parliament again. and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1733.

Lord Bateman married Lady Anne Spencer, daughter of Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland and Lady Anne Churchill, daughter of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, in 1720. He died in Paris in December 1744 and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his son, John. Lady Bateman died in February 1769.

References

[http://thepeerage.com/p10542.htm#i105412 thepeerage.com William Bateman, 1st Viscount Bateman]
"BATEMAN, William (?1695-1744), of Shobdon Court, nr. Leominster, Herefs.". History of Parliament Online.
{{London Gazette. (1 June 1725)
He was made a Knight Companion of the [[Order of the Bath]] in 1732{{London Gazette. (4 July 1732)
[http://royalsociety.org/uploadedFiles/Royal_Society_Content/about-us/fellowship/Fellows1660-2007.pdf royalsociety.org List of Fellows of the Royal Society 1660 – 2007]

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