BASSET (of Weldon) 13 heirs were (i) Sir John Aylesbury, s. of Sir Thomas Aylesbury, of Milton Keynes, Bucks, by Joan Basset, (2) John Knyvet, s. of Sir John Knyvet, of Winwick, Northants, Lord Chancellor of England, by Alianore Basset; the sd. Joan and Alianore being sisters of his grandfather, Ralph Basset. Between their representatives any hereditary Barony, that may be held to have been cr. by the writ of 1299, is (according to modern doctrine) in abeyance. (^) BATEMAN VISCOUNTCY [I.] I. William Bateman, s. and h. of Sir James B., J of Shobdon Court, co. Hereford, Totteridge, Herts, ' -"' and Tooting, Surrey, Lord Mayor of London (171 6- 17), by Esther, yst. da. and coh. of John Searle, of Finchley, Midx. He sue. his father 10 Nov. 171 8; was M.P. (Whig) for Leominster 1721-22, and 1727-34. On 12 July 1725, he was cr. BARON CULMORE, co. Londonderry, and VISCOUNT BATEMAN [L]. K.B., 12 Jan. 173 1/2. F.R.S. 21 Feb. 1732/3. He m., in 1720, Anne,() da. of Charles (Spencer), 3rd Earl of Sunderland, by his 2nd wife, Anne, 2nd da. of John (Churchill), ist Duke of Marlborough. He d. Dec. 1744, in Paris. () Will dat. 10 Jan. 1738, pr. 31 Jan. 1744/5. His widow d. 19 Feb. 1769, in Cleveland Row, Midx. Will dat. 6 Apr. 1757, pr. 27 Feb. 1769. n. 1744 2. John (Bateman), Viscount Bateman and Baron to Culmore [I.], s. and h., b. Apr. 172 i.C*) M.P.(") for 1802. Orford (not Oxford) 1746-47, for Woodstock 1747-68, and for Leominster 1768-84. Chief Steward of Leomin- ster. Lord Lieut, of co. Hereford, 1 747 till his death. A Lord of the (*) John Knyvet obtained Weldon, and Sir John Aylesbury, Drayton Beau- champ, Bucks, Thorpe Langton, ^c. In the windows of the Church of Weldon are or were the following shields of arms: — (i) [Or], three piles [Gules], a border [Sable] bezant(^e [Basset of TFeldon), impaling, [Or], on a fesse [Gules], three plates [Huntingfeld) : (2) Basset, impaling, [Azure], two bars wavy [Argent] (Pole) : (3) [Azure], a cross [Argent] [A'lesbury), impaling Basset. 1^) She was on bad terms with her grandmother, the Duchess of Marlborough, who caused her (Lady B.'s) portrait to be hung in her sitting room with the face blackened over, and the words "she is much blacker within" inscribed on the frame. (Lady Louisa Stuart, 1837). V.G. i^) He appears to have made a great collection of paintings and statues during his foreign travels, "where," says Lodge (vol. v, p. 243) "he made a better figure than some of the foreign princes through whose dominions he passed." An interesting account of the family is in Le Neve's Knights. {^) His great-grandfather, John, Duke of Marlborough, was his godfather. (•=) He was originally a Whig, but acted with the Tories after the accession of George IIL V.G.
