# Edmund Bateman

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{{Short description|English cleric and academic}}
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'''Edmund Bateman''' (1704–1751) was an English cleric and academic, the [Archdeacon of Lewes](/source/Archdeacon_of_Lewes) from 1737 until 1751.<ref>”Chichester Diocese Clergy Lists: Clergy succession from the earliest times to the year 1900" Hennessy, G: London, St Peter's Press, 1900</ref>

==Life==
He was the son of Thomas Bateman of [St. Martin's-in-the-Fields](/source/St._Martin's-in-the-Fields), London, and his wife Mary Symmons, born in [Scotland Yard](/source/Scotland_Yard) on 9 August 1704. He was educated at St. Martin's school and [Eton College](/source/Eton_College).<ref name="Johnsonian">{{cite book |last1=Reade |first1=Aleyn Lyell |title=Johnsonian Gleanings |date=n.d. |publisher=Priv. print |location=London |pages=13–14 note |url=https://archive.org/details/johnsoniangleani05readuoft/page/13}}</ref><ref name="alox">{{alox2|title=Bateman, Edmund}}</ref> His father was assistant surveyor to [Sir Christopher Wren](/source/Sir_Christopher_Wren) working on [St Paul's Cathedral](/source/St_Paul's_Cathedral), by 1701, replaced by [John James](/source/John_James_(architect)) in 1715; and died in 1719.<ref name="Johnsonian"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Wren |first1=Sir Christopher |title=Designs and Drawings by Sir Christopher Wren for St. Paul's Cathedral |date=1936 |publisher=Wren society at the University Press |page=33 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=[Howard Colvin](/source/Howard_Colvin)|title=A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600–1840|year=1978|publisher=John Murray|isbn=0-7195-3328-7|page=452}}</ref>

Bateman matriculated at [Christ Church, Oxford](/source/Christ_Church%2C_Oxford) in 1720 at age 16, graduating B.A. in 1723, and M.A. in 1726.<ref name="alox"/> He was ordained deacon in 1726, and priest in 1727. He was a tutor at Christ Church.<ref name="Johnsonian"/> At that period [Samuel Johnson](/source/Samuel_Johnson) was a student at [Pembroke College, Oxford](/source/Pembroke_College%2C_Oxford). Having determined that Bateman had a high reputation for his teaching in the university, he recommended to his school friend [John Taylor of Ashbourne](/source/John_Taylor_of_Ashbourne) that he should not apply to Pembroke College, but to Christ Church; and Taylor matriculated there in 1729. Johnson himself attended lectures by Bateman.<ref>{{alox2|title=Taylor, John (5)}}</ref><ref name="Hudson">{{cite book |last1=Hudson |first1=Nicholas |title=A Political Biography of Samuel Johnson |date=6 October 2015 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-32344-0 |page=24 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p-s5CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA24 |language=en}}</ref>

In 1731 Bateman became chaplain to [William Wake](/source/William_Wake), the [Archbishop of Canterbury](/source/Archbishop_of_Canterbury); and Wake presented him to the London living [St Dunstan-in-the-East](/source/St_Dunstan-in-the-East). In 1732, chaplain to [John Potter](/source/John_Potter_(bishop)) then [Bishop of Oxford](/source/Bishop_of_Oxford), he was presented also to [Chevening](/source/Chevening) in Kent; and the following year to [Hollingbourne](/source/Hollingbourne) as a sinecure; and through his father-in-law held a prebend in [Lichfield Cathedral](/source/Lichfield_Cathedral). In early 1737, Potter having become Archbishop of Canterbury, he took degrees of B.D. and D.D. at Oxford, and was made Archdeacon of Lewes.<ref name="Johnsonian"/>

From 1740 Bateman was also chancellor of Lichfield Cathedral. In the same year, he was appointed Master of [Hospital of St John Baptist without the Barrs](/source/Hospital_of_St_John_Baptist_without_the_Barrs), as successor to [Edward Maynard](/source/Edward_Maynard_(priest)). Both these preferments he again owed to his father-in-law.<ref name="Johnsonian"/>

Bateman died on 28 April 1751, and was buried at Lichfield in the hospital chapel.<ref name="Johnsonian"/>

==Works==
Batemen published four sermons in the period 1738 to 1743.<ref>{{cite book |title=Notes and Queries |date=1876 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=175 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dfzfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA175 |language=en}}</ref> There was a "Spital Sermon" in 1738 on {{Bibleverse|1 John|4:7|KJV}}.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bateman |first1=Edmund |title=A Sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord-Mayor, the Aldermen, and Governors of the several Hospitals of the City of London ... Being one of the Anniversary Spittal-Sermons |date=1738 |publisher=J. & J. Pemberton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TBphAAAAcAAJ |language=en}}</ref> One in 1740, to the [Sons of the Clergy](/source/Sons_of_the_Clergy) on {{Bibleverse|2 Kings|4:1–4:2|KJV}} , mentioned favourably [Queen Anne's Bounty](/source/Queen_Anne's_Bounty), against which the [Walpole ministry](/source/Walpole_ministry) had moved in 1736 with its Mortmain Bill intended to prevent charitable bequests. Hudson comments that Bateman "was evidently a Tory, though politically moderate and learned".<ref name="Hudson"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Bateman |first1=Edmund |title=A Sermon Preached Before the Sons of the Clergy ... [2 Kings iv. 1, 2.], [Edmund Bateman]. |date=1740 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dAWfMgAACAAJ |language=en}}</ref>

In 1741 Bateman preached to the trustees of the [Province of Georgia](/source/Province_of_Georgia). At this time there was internal criticism in the new colony, founded in the 1730s, from a group called the Malcontents. The annual sermons to the Georgia trustees by this time had political content, and Bateman directed support to them in an address on {{Bibleverse|Deuteronomy|33:18–33:19|KJV}} (p.&nbsp;11 of published text): "We do not say Gold or a Diamond is useless, because the Ore is rough, the Stone at first not greatly glistring".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bateman |first1=Edmund |title=A Sermon preached before the Honourable Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia, in America, and the Associates of the late Rev. Dr. Bray; at their Anniversary Meeting, etc |date=1741 |publisher=J. & H. Pemberton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=blBpAAAAcAAJ |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sweet |first1=Julie Anne |title="The Excellency and Advantage of doing Good": Thoughts on the Anniversary Sermons Preached before the Trustees of Georgia, 1731-1750 |journal=The Georgia Historical Quarterly |date=2006 |volume=90 |issue=1 |pages=23–24 |jstor=40584884 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40584884 |issn=0016-8297}}</ref>

==Family==
Bateman married Mary Smalbroke (died 1791), third daughter of [Richard Smalbroke](/source/Richard_Smalbroke), who from 1731 was [Bishop of Lichfield](/source/Bishop_of_Lichfield). They had a daughter, Mary.<ref name="Johnsonian"/>

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