BASHAM, WILLIAM RICHARD. _b._ Diss, Norfolk 1804; clerk in a bank; studied at Westminster hospital; M.D. Edin. 1834; M.R.C.P. 1838, F.R.C.P. 1850, Censor 1864–66 and 1873 and Croonian lecturer 1864; phys. to Westminster hospital 1843, and lecturer on medicine 1849–71; author of _On dropsy connected with disease of the kidneys_ 1858, _2 ed._ 1862; _Renal diseases_ 1870; _Aids to the diagnosis of diseases of the kidneys_ 1872. _d._ 17 Chester st. Belgrave sq. 16 Oct. 1877.
BASIRE, JAMES. _b._ 1796; engraver; engraved some pretty plates of Sussex country houses. _d._ London 17 May 1869.
BASS, CHARLES (_first cousin to Wm. Evans Burton the comedian_). _b._ London 5 March 1803; manager of Caledonian theatre Edinburgh about 1829; acted at the old Park theatre New York 1844–45; director of the American Dramatic fund; resided at Hamilton, Upper Canada; published _Lectures on Canada_ 1863. _d._ Hamilton 5 May 1863. _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 20–21.
BASS, MICHAEL THOMAS (_eld. son of Michael Thomas Bass of Burton-on-Trent, brewer 1760–1827_). _b._ Burton-on-Trent 6 July 1799; brewer at Burton; M.P. for Derby 1848–83; introduced and carried a bill by which house-holders might require street musicians to quit neighbourhood of their houses; built and endowed church of St. Paul at Burton; gave to town of Derby a large recreation ground, public swimming baths, a free library opened 28 June 1879 and an art gallery. _d._ Rangemoor Burton-on-Trent 29 April 1884. _Fortunes made in business ii_, 407–50 (1884); _Graphic xxix_, 457 (1884), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxiv_, 440 (1884), _portrait_.
BASSANO, ALFRED. _b._ 25 June 1826; ensign 32 foot 3 April 1846; commanded the troops in China 28 July 1877 to 3 June 1878; M.G. 12 Dec. 1877; C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ 2 Inverness place, Bayswater 12 Sep. 1882.
BASSET, FRANCES BASSET, Baroness. _b._ 30 April 1781; succeeded 5 Feb. 1835. _d._ Tehidy park, Redruth, Cornwall 22 Jany. 1855.
BASTARD, JAMES STOKES. 2 Lieut. R.A. 15 Nov. 1800; col. 9 Nov. 1846 to 20 June 1854; L.G. 24 Jany. 1857. _d._ Charlton 10 June 1871 aged 87.
BATCHELDOR, THOMAS (_2 son of Robert Batcheldor of Cholesbury, Bucks, farmer_). _b._ 23 July 1796; student of Gray’s Inn 14 Nov. 1827; practised as a conveyancer; registrar of Eton College 1827 to death; chapter clerk to dean and canons of Windsor 1843 to death; steward of the courts of Eton College; F.S.A. 21 June 1855. _d._ The Cloisters, Windsor Castle 24 July 1866.
BATE, WILLIAM THORNTON (_son of Wm. Bate, governor of Ascension island_). _b._ 1820; ed. at royal naval college Portsmouth 1833–35; midshipman R.N. 1835; mate of the Blenheim 74 guns 19 March 1841; captain of the Actæon surveying vessel 6 Feb. 1857 to death; F.R.A.S. 9 March 1849; killed at storming of Canton 29 Dec. 1857. _Memoir by Rev. John Baillie, 3 ed._ 1862, _portrait_.
BATEMAN, CHARLES PHILIP BUTLER (_son of Nathaniel Bateman, Captain R.N._) _b._ Wormley Herts 1776; Captain R.N. 25 Sep. 1806; Admiral on h.p. 18 June 1857. _d._ Corston near Bath 23 Nov. 1857.
BATEMAN, COLTHURST. _b._ 2 Oct. 1780; sheriff of co. Kerry 1832–40. _d._ Sherborne 2 Aug. 1859.
BATEMAN, HEZEKIAH LINTHICUM. _b._ Baltimore 6 Dec. 1812; an actor 1832; played in the leading juvenile business; manager of the St. Louis theatre 1855–59; first appeared in England at Adelphi theatre, London 12 June 1865 as David of Ruthin in _Geraldine_; lessee of Lyceum theatre, London 11 Sep. 1871 to death; produced _The Bells_ a version by Leopold Lewis of Erckmann-Chatrian’s Le Juif Polonais 25 Nov. 1871, and Hamlet 30 Oct. 1874 which ran till 29 June 1875, the longest run on record. (_m._ 10 Nov. 1839 Sidney Frances Cowell). _d._ Rutland lodge, South place, Knightsbridge, London 22 March 1875.
BATEMAN, JAMES. _b._ Lancaster 9 Oct. 1805; entered Society of Jesus at Mont-Rouge, France 7 Sep. 1826; ordained priest 24 Sep. 1836; a Spiritual Coadjutor 2 Feb. 1845; rector of St. Aloysius’ college Lancs. 13 March 1858 to Nov. 1861; missioner at Blackpool 1865, at Bournemouth 1874 and at Newhall 1877 to death. _d._ Newhall 17 June 1879.
BATEMAN, JOHN. _b._ 1792; Sheriff of Kerry 1820; M.P. for Tralee 7 Aug. 1837 to 12 March 1838. _d._ 1863.
BATEMAN, JOSEPH (_son of William Bateman of Selby, sailor_). _b._ Selby 4 March 1797; clerk in Board of Excise, London 1829–46; assistant solicitor to the Excise 4 July 1846 to 6 Jany. 1849 when department of stamps and taxes was amalgamated with the Excise; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1847; author of _The general turnpike acts_ 1828, _4 ed._ 1852; _Precedents of private acts of Parliament_ 1829; _A practical treatise on the law of auctions_ 1838, _6 ed._ 1882; _The laws of Excise_ 1843, _3 ed._ 1865. _d._ Walthamstow, Essex 10 Nov. 1863.
BATEMAN, SIDNEY FRANCES (_dau. of Joseph Cowell of New York, comedian 1792–1863_). _b._ New York 29 March 1823; author of a drama called ‘_Self_’ produced at People’s Theatre St. Louis 6 April 1857; _Geraldine or the master passion_ produced at Philadelphia 1859, afterwards at Adelphi theatre London 12 June 1865; lessee of Lyceum theatre 22 March 1875 to Aug. 1878, of Sadlers Wells theatre 1879 to death, rebuilt the interior and opened it 9 Oct. 1879. (_m._ 10 Nov. 1839 Hezekiah Linthicum Bateman). _d._ Taviton st. Gordon sq. London 13 Jany. 1881.
BATEMAN, THOMAS (_only child of Wm. Bateman of Middleton by Youlgreave, Derbyshire 1787–1835_). _b._ Rowsley 8 Nov. 1821; made an extensive series of excavations in the tumuli of Yorkshire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire; fellow of Ethnological society; author of _Vestiges of the antiquities of Derbyshire_ 1848; _Ten years diggings in Celtic and Saxon grave-hills_ 1861; contributed largely to antiquarian periodicals. _d._ Lomberdale house near Bakewell 28 Aug. 1861. _Reliquary ii_, 87–97 (1862), _portrait_; _Journal Brit. Archæol. Assoc. xviii_, 362–7 (1862).
BATEMAN, THOMAS HUDSON. Barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1815; comr. of bankrupts for Halifax; judge of borough court, Lancaster. _d._ 1881.
BATEMAN, THOMAS OSBORNE (_4 son of Richard Bateman, sheriff of Derbyshire who d. 1821_). _b._ Foston hall, Derbyshire 1 March 1809; ed. at Newark gr. sch., Harrow and St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1834; student at Lincoln’s Inn; restored ancient stained glass windows in Morley church 1847; bought Hartington hall Derbyshire from Duke of Devonshire 1857; built mansion of Breadsall Mount 1864; author of many pamphlets and letters. _d._ 14 Jany. 1874. _Reliquary xv_, 97–101 (1875).
BATES, REV. JOHN ELLISON. Ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; student of Ch. Ch.; rowed No. 3 in Oxford boat against Cambridge 1829; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Litherland Jany. 1842; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Hougham in Dover 1844 to death. _d._ Priory Gate 17 Feb. 1856.
BATES, JOSHUA (_only son of Colonel Joshua Bates of Weymouth near Boston U.S._) _b._ Weymouth 1788; merchant at Boston 1809–12; sent to London 1812 by W. R. Gray of Boston, largest shipowner in America; banker with John Baring in London 1826–28 when they became partners in bank of Baring brothers; naturalised by private act of parliament 5 and 6 Vict. c. 49.; gave sum of 50,000 dollars to Boston public library 1852, also nearly 27,000 books, library was opened 1854 and the large hall named after him, the Bates hall. _d._ New lodge, Windsor Forest 24 Sep. 1864. Personalty sworn under £600,000 Jany. 1865.
BATES, THOMAS. _b._ 1810; ed. at Jesus coll. Cam., 8 Wrangler 1834; fellow of his college; barrister L.I. 3 May 1839. _d._ Heddon, Northumberland 30 Jany. 1882.
BATES, REV. WILLIAM (_4 son of John Moore Bates of Heddon, Northumberland_). Ed. at Ch. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. 1847, D.D. 1858; fellow, dean, lecturer and tutor of his college; R. of Burnham Westgate, Norfolk 1849 to death; author of _College lectures on ecclesiastical history_ 1844, _2 ed._ 1848; _College lectures on Christian antiquities and the ritual of the English church_ 1845, _2 ed._ 1852. _d._ Burnham rectory 22 Nov. 1877.
BATES, WILLIAM. B.A. London 1857; a teacher of languages; professor of classics in Sydenham medical college Birmingham; professor of classics in Queen’s college Birmingham to death; M.R.C.S. 1874; medical officer to Birmingham borough fever hospital 1875–84; author of _George Cruikshank the artist_ 1878; _The Maclise portrait gallery of illustrious literary characters with memoirs_ 1873, _new ed._ 1883. _d._ 19 The Crescent, Birmingham 24 Sep. 1884 aged about 60. _Edgbastonia Oct. 1884, portrait_.
BATESON, SIR ROBERT, 1 Baronet (_only son of Thomas Bateson 1752–1811_). _b._ 13 March 1780; sheriff of county Down 1809; created a baronet 18 Dec. 1818; M.P. for Londonderry 16 Aug. 1830 to May 1842. _d._ Belvoir park, Belfast 21 April 1863.