Arthur Davenport Bateman-Hanbury

An inked inscription verso identifies the sitter as ‘’Arthur Davenport Hanbury / aged 1 year, 8 months.’

Born in Scarborough on 7 October 1867, Arthur Davenport Bateman-Hanbury was baptised on 17 November 1867 at Shobden in Herefordshire.

His father was the Reverend and Honourable Arthur Allen Bateman-Hanbury, the Rector of Shobden in Herefordshire, later Prebendary of Hereford Cathedral. His mother was Mary Ward Davenport, daughter of John Davenport of Foxley in Herefordshire. In 1837 his grandfather William Bateman-Hanbury, 2nd Baron Bateman, had assumed the additional surname of Bateman by Royal Licence.

When the census was taken in 1881 he was a pupil at Welllington. He finished his education at Christ Church, Oxford (BA, 1889).

On 25 April 1893 at St Paul’s in Wilton Place, London, he married Nina Louisa Mary Ellice, daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Henry Ellice. Their marriage did not produce any children.

Arthur Davenport Bateman-Hanbury died, aged 58, on 8 December 1925 at t Alleyn Place in Aberdeen. His usual residence at the time of his death was White’s Club in St James’s Street. He left an estate valued at £12,887. Letters of Administration were granted to his sister, Constance Mary Sheffield.

Photographed by Thomas Burrows Parkinson, an Englishman who established a studio in Dieppe. He died in Dieppe on 24 December 1898 at the age of 66.