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]

  1. ^ a b "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Londonderry". Archived from the original on 18 June 2009. Retrieved 19 October 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  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. Vol. part I. London: William Pickering, John Bowyer Nichols and Son. p. 540.
  4. ^ a b 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.