John Winterbotham Batten

John Winterbotham Batten QC (1831–1901) was an English barrister much involved in railway companies. He was noted in 1883 as holding 16 directorships.[1]

Life

He was born in Devonport, the second son of John Batten and his wife Mary Brend Winterbotham, daughter of William Winterbotham;[2] the solicitor James Brend Batten (1830–1897) was his elder brother, and the physician Rayner Winterbotham Batten (1835–1909) a younger brother.[3][4][5] He attended Mill Hill Grammar School from 1845 to 1847,[3][6] and in early life was a naval outfitter.[7]

Batten was articled to the solicitor Lindsey Winterbotham the younger of Stroud, his first cousin. He was the brother of Henry Winterbotham MP; and as sons of Lindsey Winterbotham the elder, banker at Stroud, they were grandsons of William Winterbotham.[3][8] He entered the Inner Temple in 1869, aged 38, and was called to the bar in 1872. As a barrister, Batten went the Western Circuit.[3] He lived in London at 15 Airlie Gardens, Kensington; and had chambers at 3 Harcourt Buildings, Temple.[6][9] He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1889.[10]

In 1900 Batten was listed as a director of 10 railway companies and two land companies. He was chairman of the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway and the Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway.[11]

Death

John Winterbotham Batten died on 2 June 1901. The estate left in his will was valued at £73,646.[12]

Family

Sarah Langstaff Derry Batten, portrait by Violet Manners

Batten married in 1854 Sarah Langstaff Derry, daughter of Samuel Derry MD of Plymouth.[2] Their children included four sons, one dying young:

  • Lindsey Forster Batten, eldest son, died 1865 aged 9.[13]
  • Rayner Derry Batten (born 1858), ophthalmologist, married, firstly, Marion Leonard (died 1870 aged 32); married 1888 Katharine Roubiliac Conder, daughter of Eustace Rogers Conder DD.[14][15][16][17] The physician Lindsey Willett Batten was a son of the second marriage.[18]
  • John Dickson Batten (1860–1932), illustrator, married in 1903 the artist Mary Emmeline Bott..[19][20]
  • Frederick Batten (1865–1918), youngest son, neurologist.[16][21][22]

Of the daughters:

  • Catharine Mary Batten, eldest daughter, married in 1883 the Irish Presbyterian minister and academic William Todd Martin (1837–1915).[23][24]
  • Beatrice Brend Batten, second daughter, married in 1887 the surgeon Henry Brewer Tait.[25] She was the mother of Greville Brend Tait (1882–1963), a general practitioner, and grandmother of Ian Tait.[26][27]

Notes

  1. ↑ Bowles, T. G.; Fry, O. A. (1883). Vanity Fair. Vanity Fair. p. 316.
  2. 1 2 Addison, Henry Robert; Oakes, Charles Henry; Lawson, William John; Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton (1900). Who's Who. A. & C. Black. p. 159.
  3. 1 2 3 4 The Law Journal. E.B. Ince. 1900. p. 340.
  4. ↑ "Rayner Winterbotham Batten, RCP Museum". history.rcp.ac.uk.
  5. ↑ "Death of Mr. J. B. Batten". Stroud News and Gloucestershire Advertiser. 3 September 1897. p. 2.
  6. 1 2 Mill Hill School (1893). The Mill Hill magazine, conducted by the Mill Hill boys. p. 38.
  7. ↑ Mole, Sara; Williams, Ruth; Goebel, Hans (10 March 2011). The Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses (Batten Disease). OUP Oxford. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-19-959001-8.
  8. ↑ Who Was Who (1897–1916), p. 46
  9. ↑  Foster, Joseph (1885). "Batten, John Winterbotham" . Men-at-the-Bar  (second ed.). London: Hazell, Watson, and Viney.
  10. ↑ "New Queen's Counsel". South Wales Daily News. 12 June 1899. p. 7.
  11. ↑ The Directory of Directors. Thomas Skinner Directories. 1900. p. 52.
  12. ↑ "Wills and Bequests". Ross Gazette. 25 July 1901. p. 6.
  13. ↑ "Deaths". Gloucestershire Chronicle. 13 May 1865. p. 4.
  14. ↑ Medical Times. J. & A. Churchill. 1870. p. 513.
  15. ↑ Bebbington, David; Swift, Roger (1 March 2000). Gladstone Centenary Essays. Liverpool University Press. p. 162 note 81. ISBN 978-1-78138-665-1.
  16. 1 2 Ashwal, Stephen (1990). The Founders of Child Neurology. Norman Publishing. p. 415. ISBN 978-0-930405-26-7.
  17. ↑ The Lancet. J. Onwhyn. 1888. p. 351.
  18. ↑ "Lindsey Willett Batten, RCP Museum". history.rcp.ac.uk.
  19. ↑ "Batten, John Dickson (BTN879JD)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  20. ↑ "Mary Emmeline Batten, British Museum". www.britishmuseum.org.
  21. ↑ "Batten, Frederick Eustace (BTN884FE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  22. ↑ Westminster School, London, England (1928). The Record of Old Westminsters: A Biographical List of All Those who are Known to Have Been Educated at Westminster School from the Earliest Times to 1927. Vol. 1. Printed at the Chiswick Press. p. 62.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  23. ↑ "Marriages". Gloucester Citizen. 2 May 1889. p. 3.
  24. ↑ Duddy, Thomas (15 January 2004). Irish Response To Darwinism. Bloomsbury Academic. p. xxvii. ISBN 978-1-84371-083-7.
  25. ↑ The Law Times. Office of The Law times. 1887. p. 54.
  26. ↑ "Tait, Henry Brewer (1859 - 1935)". livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk.
  27. ↑ Lock, Stephen. "Tait, Ian Greville (1926–2013)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/106320. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
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