John Bateman, 2nd Viscount Bateman (April 1721 – 2 March 1802) was a British politician who sat in the

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from 1746 to 1784. Shobdon Court (geograph 3939708)

Bateman was the eldest son of

William Bateman, 1st Viscount Bateman William Bateman, 1st Viscount Bateman KB, FRS (1695 – December 1744), of Shobdon Court, Herefordshire was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1721 and 1734. Bateman was the son of Sir James Bateman, of Shobdon ...

MP and his wife Lady Anne Spencer, daughter of

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, and granddaughter of

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. He was commissioned an ensign in the 2nd Regiment of Foot Guards on 16 November 1740, retiring from the Army on 10 February 1741/2. In December 1744 on the death of his father, he succeeded as second

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. He married Elizabeth Sambroke, daughter of John Sambroke, MP on 2 July 1748. The property Bateman inherited from his father (

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, Herefordshire) gave him a parliamentary interest at Leominster and he was connected with the Marlborough, Bedford, and Pelham families through his mother. As the viscountcy was in the

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, it did not disqualify him for election to the

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. Lord Bateman was returned unopposed on the Treasury interest as

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for Orford at a by-election on 31 January 1746. At the 1747 general election he was returned unopposed as MP for

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on the interest of his uncle Charles, Duke of Marlborough. Bateman was re-elected at Woodstock in 1754 and became

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in 1755 until 1756 when he was appointed

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. He was appointed to the

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on 19 November 1756. In 1761 he was again returned to Parliament for Woodstock. At the 1768 general election, the seat at Woodstock was required for

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, so instead, Bateman stood on his own interest at

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where he was returned unopposed. He was returned unopposed for Leominster again in 1774 and 1780. He stood down at the 1784 general election. Lord Bateman was made

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in 1747, holding the post until his death. He was

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from 1757 to March 1782 and High steward of Leominster from 1759 to his death. Resident at

he was responsible for the complete rebuilding of St John's Church between 1749 and 1752. On his death in 1802 at the age of eighty, the viscountcy became extinct. Shobdon Court passed to a relative,

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, who was created Baron Bateman in 1837 and adopted the surname of Bateman-Hanbury.

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