James Bateman

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James Bateman
Cycnoches egertonianum from his book on orchids from Mexico and Guatemala 1842

James Bateman (born July 18, 1811 in Redivals near Bury , † November 27, 1897 in Worthing , West Sussex ) was a British botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Bateman ".

Life

Bateman studied at Oxford (BA 1834, MA 1835) and then increased his inherited fortune in the iron industry and coal mining. From 1840 he laid with the help of his friend, the painter Edward William Cooke (1811-1880), and his wife a botanical garden on his country estate in Biddulph Grange near Stoke-on-Trent . He also collected and cultivated orchids , for which he sent botanists to Guatemala and other countries. He was in contact with leading orchid specialists and was himself a recognized expert on orchids. Around 1845 he published a large-format work on orchids from Central America. The work contributed to the popularization of orchid cultivation in Great Britain. Bateman later wrote many articles about orchids in Paxton's Botanical Magazine.

Biddulph Grange

His garden in Biddulph Grange is thematically laid out (for example there is a Chinese garden, one on Italy, the Himalayas and one on ancient Egypt) and is regarded by landscape architects as a rare example of the transition from English landscape gardens in the style of Capability Brown to the mature Victorian form . He served Bateman to exhibit parts of his extensive plant collections, whereby he had a preference for azaleas and rhododendrons.

Bateman had to give up and sell the country estate and garden in 1861 and moved to Kensington. At times it later became a hospital and in 1988 it was acquired by the National Trust.

He was president of the North Staffordshire Field Society and was active in the Royal Horticultural Society.

In 1838 he married Maria Sybilla Warburton, the sister of Peter Egerton Warburton . His son Robert Bateman was a painter.

Honors

Many types of orchid are named after him. Orchids from his collection are partly in the herbarium of John Lindley in Kew . Lindley, for example, named the orchid Batemannia colleyi after him (and Reginald Colley, who collected for Bateman in Guiana). Lindley designated many orchids for Bateman.

Especially the genus Batemannia Lindl. from the orchid family of plants honors the orchid specialist.

Fonts

  • The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala, 1837 to 1843
    • Only 125 copies were printed of this splendidly furnished work, which has already been auctioned for around $ 250,000, comprises 40 plates with illustrations with accompanying text and is 27 by 15 inches
  • Guide to cool orchid growing, 1864
  • A Second Century of Orchidaceous Plants, London: L. Reeve & Co., 1867.
  • A monograph of Odontoglossum, London: L. Reeve & Co., 1864 to 1874.

All three books printed during his lifetime are considered classics of orchid literature.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

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personal data
SURNAME Bateman, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British botanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Bury
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1897
Place of death Worthing