Bateman baronets

There have been two baronetcies created for members of the Bateman family, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. The Batemans had their origins in Norfolk but settled at Hartington, Derbyshire in the 16th century.

The Bateman Baronetcy, of How Hall in the County of Norfolk, was created in the Baronetage of England on 31 August 1664 for Thomas Bateman, a London merchant. He was a son of Richard Bateman, a younger son of Richard Bateman of Hartington. 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 on his death on the 13 October 1685 the baronetcy became extinct.

The Bateman Baronetcy, of Hartington in the County of Derby, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 13 December 1806 for Hugh Bateman. The Batemans of Hartington Hall 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 male heirs of his two daughters to succeed. On 14 February 1815 his elder daughter Catherine Juliana married Edward Scott (later Sir Edward, 2nd Baronet, of Great Barr; see Scott baronets of Great Barr), and on 3 August the same year his younger daughter Amelia Anne married Sir Alexander Hood, 2nd Baronet, of St Audries (see Fuller-Acland-Hood baronets of St Audries).

On Sir Hugh Bateman's death on 28 January 1824 his title passed to his elder daughter's unborn child, born on 25 February the same year 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 also succeeded his father in the Scott Baronetcy of Great Barr, as third Baronet. On the death of the fifth Baronet in 1905 the two titles separated. The Scott baronetcy of Great Barr was inherited by Douglas Edward Scott (see Scott baronets for later history of this title) while the baronetcy of Hartington was inherited by Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, 4th Baronet, of St Audries, who became the fifth Baronet. He was the grandson of Sir Alexander Hood, 2nd Baronet, and his wife Amelia Anne Bateman. See Fuller-Acland-Hood baronets for further history of the title.