Bateman Baronets

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There have been two baronetcies created in the name of Bateman.

The first was on 31 August 1664 in the Baronetage of England for Thomas Bateman, of How Hall in Norfolk, a London merchant. He had served as Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire in 1657 and 1658, and Alderman for the London ward of Walbrook from 17 April 1662 until 1664. He had no children, and so on his death on the 13 October 1685 the baronetcy became extinct.

The second creation was on 13 December 1806 in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom for Hugh Bateman, of Hartington Hall in Derbyshire. The Batemans of Hartington were the senior branch of the family to which Sir Thomas Bateman aforementioned had belonged. Sir Hugh, like his predecessor, had no sons, so the baronetcy was created with a special remainder allowing the descendants of his two daughters to succeed. On 14 February 1815 his elder daughter Catherine Juliana married Edward Dolman Scott (later Sir Edward, 2nd Baronet, of Great Barr), and on 3 August the same year his younger daughter married Sir Alexander Hood, 2nd Baronet, of Wotton House. On Sir Hugh Bateman's death on 28 January 1824 his title passed to his elder daughter's unborn child, born on 25 February with the name Francis Edward Scott, while Hartington Hall passed to his nephew Richard Thomas Bateman, whose descendants occupied the property until the twentieth century. On 27 December 1851 Sir Francis Scott succeeded his father in the baronetcy of Scott of Great Barr, as third baronet, and the two titles remained united until the death of Sir Edward Arthur Dolman Scott, 8th and 7th Baronet, in 1984. The Bateman baronetcy then passed to the senior descendant of the grantee's second daughter, Sir William Fuller-Acland-Hood, 6th Baronet of Wotton House, on whose death on 6 February 1990 the title became extinct.