Samuel Bateson

Samuel Stephen Bateson JP DL (13 October 1821 – 9 March 1879) was an Irish first-class cricketer and barrister.

Samuel Bateson
Personal information
Full nameSamuel Stephen Bateson
Born13 October 1821
Belfast, Ireland
Died9 March 1879(1879-03-09) (aged 57)
Dornoch, Sutherland, Scotland
BattingUnknown
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1844Marylebone Cricket Club
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 1
Runs scored 3
Batting average 3.00
100s/50s –/–
Top score 3
Catches/stumpings –/–
Source: Cricinfo, 8 November 2020

The son of Sir Robert Bateson, he was born at Belfast in October 1821. He was educated in England at Rugby School,[1] before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge.[2] Bateson made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Cambridge University at Cambridge in 1844.[3] Batting once in the match, he scored 3 runs in the MCC first innings before being dismissed by Henry Wroth.[4] A student of the Inner Temple, he was called to the bar in 1847.[2] He later lived in Scotland at Dornoch, where he was a justice of the peace and served as a deputy lieutenant of Sutherland in 1863.[5] Bateson was the subject of the photographer Camille Silvy's work in 1861.[6] His other interests included agricultural sciences.[2] Bateson died at his home in Dornoch in March 1879, after suffering from acute inflammation of the lungs.[7] His brother was Thomas Bateson, 1st Baron Deramore.

References

  1. The Rugby Register, from the Year 1675 to the Present Time. 1836. p. 184.
  2. Venn, John (1940). Alumni Cantabrigienses. 1. Cambridge University Press. p. 186.
  3. "First-Class Matches played by Samuel Bateson". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  4. "Cambridge University v Marylebone Cricket Club, 1844". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  5. "No. 22731". The London Gazette. 1 May 1863. p. 2325.
  6. "Samuel Stephen Bateson". www.britishmuseum.org. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  7. Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries. The Belfast News-Letter. 13 March 1879. p. 1
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