Stephen Batman

Stephen or Stephan Batman or Bateman (died 1584) was an English translator and author.

Batman was born at Bruton, Somerset, and, after a preliminary education in the school of his native town, went to Cambridge,[1] where he had the reputation of being a learned man and an excellent preacher.

It is supposed he was the Bateman who in 1534 took the degree of LL.B., being at that time a priest and a student of six years' standing.

Afterwards Archbishop Parker selected him as one of his domestic chaplains, and employed him in the collection of the library now deposited in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

He was also Doctor of Divinity and parson of Newington Butts in the same county.