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 BATEMAN — BATH. ir. ISi'i. & Wiluaji I'.ateman (Bateiiax-IIaxuuhy), Bahon Batkmax, s. and h. h. 28 July 1826 at Kclrnarsh afsd. Ed. at Trill. Colt, Cambridge. Lord Lieut, of co. Hereford, 1852. Duo of the Lords in waiting, Fib. 1S5S to June 1859. Hun. Col. of the Hereford militia, lSt>4. He m. 13 May 1S54, Agnes Burrell, Srd and yst, da. of Gen. Sir Edward Kkimuson, 1st Bart., G.C.H. and K.C.B., by -Mar} -, da. of Alexander Ei.uce of l'ittencrief, eo. Fife. Family figfaiCK— -These, in 1SS3, consisted of 7,200 acres in co. Hereford and of 53 in Suffolk. Total 7,253 acres, valued at £12,101 a year. — See Batemau's "Great Landowners." PWwfpaZ irsklnm; Shobdon Court, near Leominster, co. Hereford. X.B. The tine estate of Kelmarsh, GO, Northampton, the paternal inheritance of the Banbury family for considerably more than 200 years, was sold by the 2nd Lord Batunian. BATH. Earls. J. PSfiLUiBBT DB Ghandde,(*) b. in BiiUnny,('') where hp I 1485-6 il'l'ears to have been in a high station and to have entertained Henry, Ban of liichiuoud, afterwards Henry VII, during his banishment there : was by him made ( 'ouimander of the French auxiliaries to the troops with which the Karl landed at Milford Haven, where he was Knighted 7 Aug. 14S5, and subsequently (soon after Henry's accession to the throne) was a: EARL OK BATH, with 100 marks yearly from the counties of Somerset and Dorset, 6 Jan. 1485-6,'") being styled ' consanyuiMMs mater " in the patent. Of him, since that date, nothing further is known,!' 1 ) and the title is presumed to have become tztiuct on his death. II. 1536. /. Jons (BeimeHlES) Loud Fitz WaMXE, only s. find h. of Fulke, LOBTJ Fitz W.UilXE. by Elizabeth, sister and coheir of John (I)ixiiaM; Lohu Dinham ok (Jaue Dixham, was I,, about 1470, sue. his father 12 Sep. 1 170, became of full age in 1401, was sum. to Pari, as a Baron 12 Aug. 1102 to 8 June 1536 : K.B. 31 Oct. 1494 ; lC. 1520 ; was one of the signatories of the letter of warning to Pope Clement VII in 1530, and was, on 0 July 1536, er. EARL OF BATH, taking his seat the next day. He m. lirstly. about 1489, Cicely, only sister of Henry (Daukf.xey) Eari, of BHIDQKWATEB, da. of Giles, Loud Daibe.vey, by Klizabi til, da. of Sir John AltfxnKi. of Lauherne. He m. secondly Elizabeth. He d. 30 April 1539 and was bur. (with his father) at Biaunton, North Devon. Will dat. 20 Oct. 1535, pr. 2 June 1541. (") His second wife survived him. II. 1 539. .1. .John (liontcniEH), Earl of Bath, etc., only s. and h. by first wife, aged 40 at his father's death. (') On S April 154S, by the death of his maternal uncle Henry (Daubeney), Earl of Bridgwater. &e., he sue. to the Bakoxy of Daubf.xey, ei: bv writ (1295), 23 Ed. I. He was (v. p.) Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, 1519 ; Knighted [1523 !] ; P.C., 1553. He was one of the first to declare the right of Queen Mary to the Crown, and was, consequently, a Commissioner to'deoide on the claims made at her Coronation and for the trial of Lady Jane Grey (*) There was a family of some eminence of that name in Bresse and Bugey, both which were in the province (not of Britanuv, but) of Burgundy. ( b ) So sbded in " Segar." ( c ) " Some say he was er. Earl of Bath at the Tower, the day before the Coronation, the 16th Oct. 1 185, &c." See Milles' " Catalogue of Honour," 1610, p. 974. ('') He is called " Strenuus et Sapiens Miles " and " Vir militari doctrina praxlitus " in Bei-iiard Andre's I'itn llfjU llcnrici scpiimi. C) Test. Vet. ?) A few months later, by the death of Henry, Earl of Essex, on 13 March 15:19-40, lie became h. male of the body of William Bourchier, Count of Eu in Normandy and, as such, entitled apparently to that dignity, which, however, neither he nor his descendants ever assumed.