Barwell, Wilfred Thomas de Berdewelle, brother of Charles Sedley William Barwell (q.v.); b. Nov. 28, 1872; adm. Sept. 16, 1886 (G); left July 1891; adm. a solicitor March 1896, in practice at Seaford, Sussex; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers Sept. 13, 1914; obtained a commission in the Royal Engineers (Railway Transport Establishment) March 31, 1915, and became Major July 1, 1918, whilst D. A. D. of Railway Traffic; served one year in France and seventeen months in Italy; m. Jan. 27, 1910, Dorothy, daughter of Hugh Clayton Armstrong, of Folkestone, Kent; d. Oct. 8, 1961.

BARWELL, WILLIAM, son of William Barwell, EICS Bengal, Governor of Bengal, a director of the East India Company, and his third wife Elizabeth Pierce, Calcutta; bapt. 13 Oct 1740; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1749/50 (Grant's); in school list 1754.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

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.