Sir Alexander Dingwall Bateson (30 April 1866 – 11 January 1935) was a British barrister and High Court judge.
[1] He was educated at Rugby School and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he took third-class honours in classical moderations (1887) and graduated with a pass BA degree in 1888.
Drawing on Walton's backing and his own family connections, Bateson specialized in shipping work, mainly in salvage and collision cases in the Admiralty Division and sometime in the Commercial Court, and built a substantial practice.
[1] In 1925, on the recommendation of Viscount Cave, Dingwall was selected to fill the additional judgeship created by the Administration of Justice Act 1925 in order to relieve congestion in the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division.
During the First World War, he made Thomas splints at the Kensington Red Cross depot.