William Bateman Bateman-Hanbury, 2nd Baron Bateman (28 July 1826 – 30 November 1901), styled The Honourable from 1837 until 1845, was a British

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 peer and Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician.

Background and education

Born William Hanbury at Kelmarsh

Kelmarsh

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, he was the son of William Bateman-Hanbury, 1st Baron Bateman

William Bateman-Hanbury, 1st Baron Bateman

William Bateman-Hanbury, 1st Baron Bateman of Shobdon was a Member of Parliament and later a Baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom....

 and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Lord Spencer Chichester, son of Arthur Chichester, 1st Marquess of Donegall

Arthur Chichester, 1st Marquess of Donegall

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. He was educated at Eton College

Eton College

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 and then Trinity College, Cambridge

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. In 1837 he assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Bateman.

Career

He succeeded his father in the barony in 1845 and took his seat on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords

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. Bateman-Hanbury joined the Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry as a cornet in 1847. Between 1858 and 1859 he served as a Lord-in-Waiting

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 (government whip in the House of Lords) in the Conservative administration

Conservative Government 1858-1859

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 of the Earl of Derby

Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby

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. In 1852, having been previously a Deputy Lieutenant

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, he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire

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, a post he held for alsmost fifty years until his death in 1901.

Family

Lord Bateman married Agnes, youngest daughter of General Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet

Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet

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, in 1854. They had four sons and six daughters. He died in November 1901, aged 75, and was succeeded in the barony by his son William. Lady Bateman died in 1918.

Publications

• Lord Bateman's plea for limited protection or for reciprocity in free trade with a preface by the author. A letter printed by The Times of November 12 1877. 1878, London: William Ridgway, & Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co.