John Frederick La Trobe Bateman

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John Frederick La Trobe Bateman FRSE FRS MICE FRGS FGS FSA (30 May 1810 – 10 June 1889) was an English civil engineer whose work formed the basis of the modern United Kingdom water supply industry. For more than 50 years from 1835 he designed and constructed reservoirs and waterworks. His largest project was the Longdendale Chain system that has supplied Manchester with much of its water since the 19th century. The construction of what was in its day the largest chain of reservoirs in the world began in 1848 and was completed in 1877. Bateman became "the greatest dam-builder of his generation".

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Biographical Summary

BATEMAN, JOHN FREDERIC LA TROBE-. 30/05/1810-10/06/1889. Ref: 115. Male.

• Place of Birth: Lower Wyke, near Halifax, Yorkshire.
• Place of Death: Moor Park, Farnham, Surrey.
• Profession: Water Engineer.
• Appointments Held: Involved in water projects in Ireland and Manchester before working on the Loch Katrine Project 1856-60. Undertook many other water schemes in Britian and abroad.
• Schools and Tutors: Moravian schools at Fairfield and Ockbrook.
• Training: Apprentice to surveyor and mining engineer, Oldham.
• Publications: "History of Manchester Water Works" 1884.
• Marital Status: Married (1841) Anne Fairbairn.
• Mother: Mary Agnes La Trobe.
• Father: John Bateman 1772-1851.
• References: DNB Supplement 1, 1901, 138; Proc Roy Soc, 46, 1890, xlii-xlviii, signed WP; Annual Register 1889, part 2, p.148.
• Memberships: FRS(1860), M.Inst CE.(1840, President 1878 and 1879), FRGS, FGS. FSA.
• Date of Election: 07/01/1878.
• Proposers: David Stevenson, James Leslie, Thomas Stevenson, Sir Charles Wyville Thomson (Billet 3/12/1877, 17/12/1877).
• Notes: Born 1820.
• Fellow Type: OF.

SOURCE: Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Biographical index of former fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783-2002: Biographical Index. I. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. page 65

Other References

• Wikipedia contributors. "John Frederick Bateman." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
• Burke, Bernard, Sir. A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland 6th ed. London : Harrison 1879. Vol I. page 94