View source for William Bateman 1695?-1744

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===[[name::William]] [[name::BATEMAN]], 1st [[personal title::Viscount Bateman]] [[date of birth::1695|1695?]]-[[date of death::1744]]===
[[file:William Bateman.jpg|thumb|Bateman's armorial stamp (British Armorial Bindings)]]
====Biographical Note====
Son of Sir [[family::James Bateman]] of [[location::Shobdon Court, Herefordshire]], a wealthy [[location::London]] merchant  and [[occupation::Lord Mayor]] 1717-18, from whom he inherited extensive estates in 1718. Matriculated at [[education::Peterhouse, Cambridge]] 1712, but did not graduate; admitted at the [[organisations::Inner Temple]] 1712. He was [[occupation::MP]] for [[location::Leominster]] 1721-34, created Viscount Bateman (in the Irish peerage) in 1725, and elected a Fellow of the [[organisations::Royal Society]] in 1733. He died in [[location::Paris]].
[[file:BatemanWilliam.JPG|thumb|Bateman's bookplate (British Museum Franks Collection 1743)]]
====Books====
Bateman used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 1743). The extent of his library is not known; after the death of his son [[family::John Bateman|John]], 2nd Viscount in 1802 the family property passed to a relative, William Hanbury, later 1st Baron Bateman, whose son's library was partly dispersed by Sotheby's in 1896.

====Characteristic Markings====
As well as the bookplate, Bateman used an armorial binding stamp. Several of the books recorded in the Armorials database also have an inscription "Bateman" within.

====Sources====
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*[https://armorial.library.utoronto.ca/stamp-owners/BAT003 British Armorial Bindings].
*[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/bateman-william-1695-1744 History of Parliament].
*Gambier Howe, E. R. J. ''Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum''. London, 1903.
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