Barrington-Ward, John Craig, 1928-2013
Barrington-Ward, John Craig, son of John Grosvenor Barrington-Ward (qv); b. 28 Aug. 1928; adm. Sept. 1942 (G); left July 1946; RMA Sandhurst; RA, 2nd Lieut. Oct. 1948, Lieut. Oct. 1950, Capt. May 1956, Maj. Oct. 1961, retd. May 1982; m. 5 Sept. 1973 Anna Mary Hermione Barcroft FRSA, art historian, d. of Lieut. -Col. Robert Ball Barcroft, Skinner’s Horse; d. 14 July 2013.
Batt, Richard Bush Drury, 1861-1886
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.
BATES, JOAH FUREY, son of Edward Bates, London, and Louisa (Longchamp ?) (IGI); b. 28 Jul 1811; adm. (G) 30 May 1823; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 30 May 1829, matr. Mich. 1829; entered Customs House; Committee Clerk to Board of Customs; retd. 5 May 1881; m. (by 1881) Margaret --- (IGI).
Batten, Henry Herbert Evans, 1920-1998
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.
Battersby, Henry Francis Prevost, 1862-1949
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.
Batley, John Armytage, 1856-1933
BATLEY, JOHN ARMYTAGE, elder son of John Batley, Seaborough Court, Crewkerne, Somerset, and Louise Marie, dau. of James Bonsor, Rue Jean Jacques Rousseau, Lille, France; b. 1 May 1856; adm. (G) 21 Jan 1870; left Aug 1875; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 25 May 1875, matr. Mich. 1875; LLB 1879; BA 1880; MA 1887; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 17 Nov 1876, called to bar 17 Nov 1881; became a mechanical engineer; served Ministry of Munitions during 1914-18 war; m. 1st, 2 Apr 1891, Edith Marion, third dau. of Charles Harrison MP, Areley Court, Stourport, Worcs.; m. 2nd, 29 Dec 1921, Anne Muriel, second dau. of John William Sparrow, Beckminster, Wolverhampton, Staffs.; d. 1 May 1933.
BATES, NATHANIEL, second son of Lieut. -Col. Ralph Bates, 6th Dragoons, Milburn Hall, Northumberland, and Sarah, dau. of Rev. Nathaniel Ellison, Rector of Bolam and Doddington, Northumberland; b. 16 Jun 1805; adm. (G) 24 Jan 1820; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 4 Jun 1824; inherited Milburn Hall estate 1853; d. unm. 6 Jun 1855.
BEAMES, RUPERT, son of John Beames, Bengal Civil Service (previously EICS Bengal), Commissioner Presidency Division, and Ellen Mary, dau. of Frederick Augustus Geary, Boolundshur; b. 7 Mar 1865; adm. from Haileybury Coll. (G) 23 Sep 1880; left Whitsun 1883.
Beale, Charles Ian Alexander, 1923-1999
Beale, Charles Ian Alexander, son of Hector Llewellyn Beale MB ChM, of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Florence, d. of William Henderson, bank man., of Auchenblae, Kincardineshire; b. 16 Sept. 1923; adm. Sept. 1937 (G); left July 1941; King’s Coll. Camb., matric. 1941, BA 1948, MA 1950; RA 1943-5 (Capt. ), wounded NW Europe 1944; jackeroo and boundary rider in Victoria, Australia, 1950-2; dairy farmer, NSW, Australia 1953-6; agric. officer, Bank of NSW; pres. Australian Inst. of Agric. Sci., NSW branch, 1960; numerous appts. as agric. economist on dev. projects with the Food and Agric. Organisation of the United Nations, mainly in Africa, but also in the Middle East and South Pacific, 1967-85; retd. 1985; m. 29 Mar. 1947 Molly, d. of Athole George Allen, chemical manufacturer, of Worthing, Sussex; d. 7 Nov. 1999.
BEAUMONT, GEORGE, second son of Rev. Thomas George Beaumont, Rector of Chelmondiston, Suffolk [and/or Butterleigh, Devon], and Thomazine, dau. of Rev. John Bradshaw, Incumbent of Lambeg, co. Antrim, and Prebendary of Down; b. 30 Jun 1862; adm. (G) 22 Sep 1876; left Aug 1880; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 1 Jun 1880, matr. Mich. 1880; Lieut., 1st West Indian Regt., 11 Mar 1885; Liverpool Regt., 8 May 1889; Capt., 1 Mar 1893; retd. 23 Jul 1902; served South African War 1899-1902; Adjt. -Gen., Maritzburg Depot, afterwards Commandant, Nooitgedacht; despatches LG 29 Jan 1902; Capt., TF Reserve, 3 Nov 1914; m. 1893 Cecilia, dau. of R. Roberts; d. 18 Nov 1925.