Sir Edward Bates, 1st Baronet
DL (17 March 1816 – 17 October 1896) was a ship-owner and
Conservative
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politician who represented
Plymouth
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.
Biography
Bates was the son of Joseph Bates, a wool finisher and exporter and his wife Rebekah Walker. He was sent to
Calcutta
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in 1833 to join his elder brother in the business which his father had started since the ending of the
East India Company
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monopoly. He made two short trips to England in 1838–39 and in 1843, but otherwise remained in India at Calcutta and
Bombay
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until 1848. Back in England, Bates began his own business chartering ships for the Bombay trade. He then started to buy ships, acquiring the newly built Jamsetjee Cursetjee, named after his
Parsee
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partner in Bombay. He had built a fleet of 60 ships in 1860 and eventually owned 130 ships.
Bates became Conservative
Member of Parliament for Plymouth in 1871 and held the seat until 1880 when, on 25 June 1880, he was unseated on the grounds of illegal payments by his agents. He regained the seat in 1885, holding it until 1892. He was
deputy lieutenant of
Hampshire
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and
Lancashire
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and a
J.P. for Lancashire. He was created 1st
Baronet Bates, of Bellefield, co. Lancaster on 13 May 1880. He lived at Bellefield, West Derby, Liverpool, Lancashire,
Manydown Park,
Hampshire
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, and Gyrn Castle,
Llanasa
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, Flintshire, Wales.
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Bates first wife was Charlotte Elizabeth Umfreville-Smith, daughter of Cornelius Umfreville-Smith, whom he married in 1837. He married, secondly, Ellen Thompson, daughter of Thomas Thompson, on 25 June 1844. He had three daughters by his first wife.
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1816 births
1896 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Deputy lieutenants of Hampshire
Deputy lieutenants of Lancashire
UK MPs 1868–1874
UK MPs 1874–1880
UK MPs 1885–1886
UK MPs 1886–1892
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Plymouth