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BATLEY, RALPH CECIL, brother of John Armytage Batley (qv); b. 2 Dec 1862; adm. (G) 26 Jan 1872; left Aug 1881; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 10 Oct 1881, matr. Mich. 1881; BA and LLB 1884; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 26 Jan 1882; adm. solicitor 1887; went out to South Africa; served in Matabele War, 1893, with Salisbury Horse, and with Rhodesian Horse in rising of 1895-7; returned to England 1897; commissioned Dorset Yeomanry 17 Nov 1897; served with Imperial Yeomanry in South African War 1900-1; wounded at Diamond Hill 12 Jun 1900; afterwards employed as Civil Commissioner for Pretoria and district; Hon. Capt. in Army 26 Jul 1901; despatches L. G. 10 Sep 1901; Maj., Dorset Yeomanry, 12 Apr 1902; medically unfit for foreign service when regiment ordered to Gallipoli, and given command of 3rd line Dorset Yeomanry battalion; res. on account of ill-health 24 Jan 1917; TD 1917; m. 14 Jun 1904 Mabel Gwynnedd Terry, youngest dau. of Arthur James Lewis, Moray Lodge, Campden Hill, Kensington; d. 23 Oct 1917.

BATT, RICHARD BUSH DRURY, son of Edward Batt MD MRCS LSA, Witney, Oxfordshire, subsequently of London, medical practitioner, and Emma Vere, dau. of Capt. Augustus Vere Drury RN; b. 14 Mar 1861; adm. (G) 23 Jan 1873; left Christmas 1875; St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; LSA 1882; MRCS 1883; practised at Tring, Herts.; d. 6 Jun 1886.

BATTELEY, OLIVER, son of Rev. Nicholas Batteley, Vicar of Bekesbourne, Kent, and Anne, dau. of --- Porkington, Hunts.; b. 3 Aug 1697; adm.; QS (aged 15) 1712; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1716, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 8 Jun 1716, Canoneer Student 23 Jul 1717 - 29 Jun 1737 (expiry year of grace as R. Iron Acton), Tutor 1720-35, Junior Censor 1728-31, Senior Censor 1732-5; BA 1720; MA 9 Mar 1723/4; BD 1734; Proctor 1731; ordained; Curate, Cowley, Oxfordshire, 1727; Rector of Iron Acton, Gloucs., 1736 (year of grace from 30 Jun 1736); Rector of Cwm, Flints., from 1751; Prebendary of Llandaff 28 Jun 1757; edited the works of his uncle Ven. John Batteley DD, Archdeacon of Canterbury, 1745; buried Bath 26 Sep 1762. DNB (s. v. Nicholas Batteley).

BATTEN, FREDERICK EUSTACE, youngest son of John Winterbotham Batten KC, Airlie Gardens, Campden Hill, London, barrister, and Sarah Langstaff, dau. of Samuel Derry MRCS, Plymouth, Devon; b. 29 Sep 1865; adm. (R) 26 Sep 1878; left Aug 1883; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 23 May 1884, matr. Mich. 1884; BA 1887; MB BCh MA 1891; MD 1895; St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; MRCP 1894; FRCP 1901; Physiacian to the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, Queen Square, and to the Children’s Hospital, Great Ormond Street; practised in London; m. 19 Oct 1907 Jean Evelyn, youngest dau. of John James Stevenson FRIBA, Porchester Gardens, Bayswater, architect; d. 27 Jul 1918.

Batten, Henry Herbert Evans, son of Herbert Ernest Batten FRCS and Margaret Elizabeth Evans, nursing asst matron Roy. Masonic Hosp., d. of James Evans, railway engineer, of Swindon; b. 8 Jan. 1920; adm. Sept. 1933 (G); left July 1938; Pemb. Coll. Camb., matric. 1938, BA 1942, MA 1947; St Mary's Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1944; MB BChir (Cantab.) 1945; RAMC (Capt.) with African forces in India, Kenya and Mauritius; FRCS 1948; MRCGP 1955; med. examiner Civil Aviation Authority; in gen. med. practice in Cambridge; m. 9 Dec. 1946 Mary Noel Gwenellen Fowle SRN, d. of Rev. John Sydney Fowle, Vicar of Ogbourne St George, Wilts.

Batten, Richard Lindsey, son of Lindsey William Batten MB FRCP, of Hampstead, and Ellen Mary, d. of George Lindsay Turnbull, gen. med. practitioner; b. 29 Sept. 1920; adm. Sept. 1934 (R), KS 1935; left July 1939; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1939; Westminster Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1944, FRCS 1953; RAMC 1944-7 (Capt.); house appts Westminster, Hereford and Birmingham 1948-55; lecturer Univ. Coll. Hosp. Ibadan, Nigeria, 1955-61; consult. orthopaedic surgeon Birmingham 1961-83; Fellow Brit. Orthopaedic Assn 1973; m. 18 Dec. 1954 Mary Longford, nurse at Great Ormond St Hosp., d. of Harry Longford, engineer; d. 29 Dec. 1997.

BATTERSBY, ALEXANDER, son of John Battersby, Fenchurch Street, London, apothecary; bapt. 14 Oct 1656; at Merchant Taylors’ Sch. 1665-72; adm.; KS 1672; St. John’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 10 Apr 1673, aged 16; adm. Inner Temple 1677; buried St. Dionis Backchurch, London, 23 Nov 1677.

BATTERSBY, HENRY FRANCIS PREVOST, eldest son of Maj. -Gen. John Prevost Battersby, Commandant Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea, and Louisa, dau. of Sir William Dillon, Bart.; b. 10 Feb 1862; adm. (G) 21 Jan 1875; left May 1878; RMA Woolwich and RMC Sandhurst; Lieut., 1st bn. Irish Rifles 10 May 1882; retd. 1883; played hockey for South v. North 1890-5; war correspondent for Morning Post in South Africa 1899-1900 (wounded), Somaliland 1902, France and Flanders 1915-6 (wounded); war correspondent for Reuters on American and British fronts 1918 (gassed); special correspondent with Prince of Wales in India 1905-6; author, In the web of a war, 1900, and a number of other works, poems, plays and translations, under pen name Francis Prevost; m. 21 Apr 1909 Frances Muriel (Pearl), elder dau. of Henry C. Saunders, Weybridge, Surrey; d. 20 Jun 1949.

Battle, Philip Marfieet, son of John Scoley Battle, of Woodhall Spa, Lincs, by Mary, daughter of Henry Marfteet, of Navenby, Lincs; b. June 7, 1882; adm. May 6, 1897 (H); left April 1901; A.M.I.C.E., 1908; assist. engineer Public Works Department, Ceylon, Jan. 1910, district engineer Dec. 1910; m. Oct. 28, 1911, Hetty, daughter of Joseph Barron, of Pannal, Yorks.

Baty, Charles Witcomb, son of William Charles Baty, of Ewell, Surrey, by Margarette Sarah, daughter of Thomas Ballinger, of Cheltenham, Gloucs; b. Sept. 22, 1900; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 24, 1914 (H); non-resident K.S. Sept. 1915; Mure Scholar 1917; elected head to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1918, matric. Hilary 1919; 1st class Classics (Mods.) 1920; 2nd class (Lit. Hurn.) 1922; honourably mentioned Hertford Schol. exam. 1920; M.A. 1927; assist. master Bedford School 1923; Head Master of King's School, Chester 1929-46; Director, Education Division Allied Commission for Austria, 1946-8; H.M. Inspector of Schools 1949-62; Staff Inspector for Classics 1954; J.P., Bath, 1961; m. Aug. 4, 1923, Edith Halina, sister of Robert Alexander Polhill Bevan (q.v.); d. 1975.