William Bateman, 1st Viscount Bateman

Bateman was the son of Sir James Bateman, of Shobdon Court, Shobdon, Lord Mayor of London and Governor of the Bank of England, by his wife Esther Searle, daughter of John Searle, of Finchley, Middlesex.

[1] Bateman was returned as Member of Parliament for Leominster at a by-election in 1721 but did not stand at the 1722 general election.

[2] In 1725 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron of Culmore, in the County of Londonderry, and Viscount Bateman.

[2] He was made a Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1732[4] and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1733.

[5] Lord Bateman married Lady Anne Spencer, daughter of Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland and Lady Anne Churchill, daughter of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, in 1720.