Robert Bateson (politician)

Robert Bateson (29 March 1816 – 23 December 1843)[1] was an Irish Conservative politician.

He was the oldest son of Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet and his wife Catherine, the youngest daughter of Samuel Dickinson.[2]

Bateson entered the British House of Commons in 1842, sitting for Londonderry, the same constituency his father had previously represented, until his own early death in the following year.[1]

He died of typhus aged 27 on a visit of Jerusalem, predeceasing his father.[3] He was succeeded as a Member of Parliament by his younger brother Thomas, later raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Deramore.[4] His youngest brother George was per a special remainder heir to the barony.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Londonderry". Retrieved 19 October 2009.
  2. ↑ Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. vol. II (5th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 1224.
  3. ↑ Sylvanus, Urban (1844). The Gentleman's Magazine. part I. London: William Pickering, John Bowyer Nichols and Son. p. 540.
  4. 1 2 Cokayne, George Edward (1916). Vicary Gibbs and H. Arthur Doubleday, ed. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. vol. IV. London: St Catherine Press. p. 188.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Theobald Jones
Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Bt		 Member of Parliament for Londonderry
1842–1843
With: Theobald Jones		 Succeeded by
Theobald Jones
Thomas Bateson


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