BATEMAN OF SHOBDON 15 of that CO., 1 841 till his death. He m., i6 Aug. 1822, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Elizabeth, sister of Arthur, ist Lord Templemore, 2nd da. of Lord Spencer Stanley Chichester, of Fisherwick, co. Stafford, by Harriet, da. of John (Stewart), 7th Earl of Galloway [S.]. He d. 22 July 1845, '■ Portman Sq., aged 65. Will pr. Sep. 1845. His widow d. 19 Sep. 1882, at 36 Great Cumberland Place, Midx., in her 84th year. II, 1845. 2. William Bateman (Bateman-Hanbury), Baron Bateman, s. and h., b. 28 July 1826, in Brook Str. Ed. at Eton, and at Trin. Coll. Cambridge. Lord Lieut, of co, Hereford, 1852 till his death. A Lord in waiting, Feb. 1858 to June 1859. A Conservative in politics. He m., 13 May 1854, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Agnes Burrell, 3rd and yst. da. of Gen. Sir Edward Kerrison, ist Bart., G.C.H. and K.C.B., by Mary, da. of Alexander Ellice, of Pittencrief, co. Fife. He d. from an operation for cancer, in a nursing home in Beaumont Str., Marylebone, 30 Nov., and was bur. 4 Dec, 1901, at Shobdon, aged 75. His widow was living 1 9 1 o. [William Spencer Bateman-Hanbury, s. andh., b. 30 Sep. i856;ed. at Eton; sometime Capt. 2nd Life Guards. He m., 23 July 1904, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Marion Alice, widow of Henry Cabot Knapp, da. of James Jeffrey Graham, of New York, U.S.A. Having sue. to the peerage 30 Nov. 1 90 1, he is outside the scope of this work.] Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 7,200 acres in co. Hereford, and of 53 in Suffolk. Total 7,253 acres, valued at /!^i2,ioi a year. Principal Residence. — Shobdon Court, near Leominster, co. Here- ford. The fine estate of Kelmarsh, Northants, the paternal inheritance of the Hanbury family for considerably more than 200 years, was sold by the 2nd Lord Bateman. BATH EARLDOM. I. Philieert de ChandeEj^) b. in Brittany,() where - , he appears to have been in a high station and to have enter- ■ ■^ ■ tained Henry, Earl of Richmond, afterwards Henry VII, during his banishment there; was by him made Commander of the French auxiliaries to the troops with which the Earl landed at Milford Haven: there he was knighted, 7 Aug. 1485. He was cr., 6 Jan. 1 48 5/6,('=) EARL OF BATH, with 100 marks yearly from the counties of Somerset if) There was a family of some eminence of that name in Bresse and Bugey, both which were in the province (not of Brittany, but) of Burgundy. J. H. Round points out that the name of the Duke of Savoy (which country marched with Bresse and Bugey) who sue. in 1472, was Philibert, as was that of the Duke who d. in 1504 and was hur. at Bourg, the capital of Bresse. These facts suggest that the Earl of Bath came from that district. V.G. C") So stated in Segar. (^) "Some say he was cr. Earl of Bath at the Tower, the day before the Coro- nation, the i6th Oct. 1485." (Milles' Catalogue of Honour, 1610, p. 974).
