| Country: | Ireland |
| Fullname: | Samuel Stephen Bateson |
| Birth Date: | 13 October 1821 |
| Birth Place: | Belfast, Ireland |
| Death Place: | Dornoch, Sutherland, Scotland |
| Batting: | Unknown |
| Club1: | Marylebone Cricket Club |
| Year1: | 1844 |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 1 |
| Runs1: | 3 |
| Bat Avg1: | 3.00 |
| 100S/50S1: | –/– |
| Top Score1: | 3 |
| Hidedeliveries: | true |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | –/– |
| Date: | 8 November |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/10390.html Cricinfo |
Samuel Stephen Bateson (13 October 1821 – 9 March 1879) was an Irish first-class cricketer and barrister.
The son of Sir Robert Bateson, he was born at Belfast in October 1821. He was educated in England at Rugby School,[1] before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge. Bateson made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Cambridge University at Cambridge in 1844.[2] Batting once in the match, he scored 3 runs in the MCC first innings before being dismissed by Henry Wroth.[3]
A student of the Inner Temple, Bateson was called to the bar in 1847. He later lived in Scotland at Dornoch, where he was a justice of the peace and served as a deputy lieutenant of Sutherland in 1863. Bateson was the subject of the photographer Camille Silvy's work in 1861.[4] His other interests included agricultural sciences. Bateson died at his home in Dornoch in March 1879, after suffering from acute inflammation of the lungs.[5]
Bateson married in 1854 Florinda Handcock, daughter of Richard Handcock, 3rd Baron Castlemaine.[6]
His brother was Thomas Bateson, 1st Baron Deramore.