Irish cricketer and British Army officer
Samuel Stephen Bateson JP DL (13 October 1821 – 9 March 1879) was an Irish first-class cricketer and barrister.
Life
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, Bateson 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]
Family
Bateson married in 1854 Florinda Handcock, daughter of Richard Handcock, 3rd Baron Castlemaine.[8]
His brother was Thomas Bateson, 1st Baron Deramore.
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