H. L. Bateman

Hezekiah Linthicum Bateman (December 6, 1812 – March 22, 1875), was an American actor and manager.

Amzi Bateman had served with the 6th Regiment of the Maryland Militia and took part in the defence of Baltimore against the invasion by the British troops during the Anglo-American War of 1812.

[1] Hezekiah Bateman was reluctantly apprenticed to an engineer but in 1832 left that position to become an actor, playing with Ellen Tree (afterwards Mrs Charles Kean) in juvenile leads.

Here he engaged Henry Irving, presenting him first in The Bells, with great success.

His daughter the actress Virginia Frances Bateman (1853–1940) married the British actor-manager Edward Compton.