14 BATEMAN Admiralty 1755-56; Treasurer of the Household 1756-57. P.C. 19 Nov. 1756. Master of the Buckhounds 1757-82, when he resigned on the fall of Lord North's Ministry.(^) He ?«., 2 July 1748, at St. Anne's, Soho, Elizabeth, da. and coh. of John Sambroke (br. of Sir Jeremy Sambroke, 5th and last Bart.), by Elizabeth, da. of Sir William Forester. He d, s.p., 1 Mar. 1802, at Shobdon Court, aged 80, when his honours became extinct.(^) Will dat. 24 May 1784 to 28 June 1800, pr. 15 Apr. 1802. His widow d. 20 Dec. 1802, in Argyle Str., in her 77th year. Will pr. 12 Jan. i8o3.('=) BATEMAN OF SHOBDON BARONY, I. William Hanbury,s. and h. of William H.,^) of T n Kelmarsh, Northants, and Shobdon Court, co. Hereford, •^ by Charlotte, da. of Charles James Packe, of Prestwold, CO. Leicester, b. 24 June 1780, at Kelmarsh, sue. his father 16 Nov. 1807. Ed. at Eton. Matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 24 Apr. 1798. He was M.P. (Whig) for Northampton 1 8 lo-i 8, and having contested the North division of that CO. in Dec. 1835, in the Liberal interest, was, a year after his defeat,^) a: 30 Jan. 1837, BARON BATEMAN OF SHOBDON, co. Hereford. (') On 14 Feb. following, he took, by royal lie, the name of Bateman-Hanbury. High Sheriff of co. Hereford 1819-20; Lord Lieut. if) No one being " more personally regretted by the King." See Wraxall's Memoirs (1884), vol. ii, p. 275. Mrs. Delany describes him, in Mar. 1744/5, as " excessively thin, polite, and modest in behaviour." V.G. C") This was the first Irish peerage that became extinct after the Union [I.], and was one of the three extinctions used in accordance with that Act, in the creation, II Feb. 1806, of the Barony of Rendlesham [I.]. (f) In it she is said to have bequeathed personalty, worth above ^^5,000 a year, to Charles, Viscount Sackville (afterwards, 1815-1843, Duke of Dorset), whose mother, Diana, was her sister. (^) Anne, da. of Sir James Bateman, and only sister ot the ist Viscount Bateman [I.], m. William Western, of Rivenhall, Essex, by whom she had two daughters, of whom the elder, Sarah, w., 10 Feb. 1735/6 (being "worth ^^30,000"), William Hanbury, of Kelmarsh, co. Northampton, whose s. William (as above) sue. to the estate of Shobdon under the will of the last Viscount Bateman [I.], on the death, in Dec. 1802, of Elizabeth, Viscountess Bateman, his relict. if) After his elevation he became a strong protectionist. For a list of consolation peerages see vol. v, Appendix B. V.G. (') The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman, with clever plates and notes, both by George Cruikshank, was published in 1839, by "Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, and Mustapha Syried, Constantinople." The verse is supposed to have been by Thackeray, but it is unquestionably merely a variation of" Young Beichan " (see stanza 38 thereof) given in The Ballad Book,td. by W. AUingham, 1865. Lord Bateman first appeared, curiously enough, only two years after this creation, though it has, of course, no rela- tion to this or any other family. V.G.
