Robert Bateson (politician)

Robert Bateson (29 March 1816 – 23 December 1843) was an Irish Conservative politician.

He was the oldest son of Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet and his wife Catherine, the youngest daughter of Samuel Dickinson.

Bateson entered the British House of Commons in 1842, sitting for Londonderry, the same constituency his father had represented before, until his death in the following year. He was succeeded as a Member of Parliament by his second brother Thomas, later raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Deramore. His youngest brother George was per a special remainder heir to the barony.

Bateson died of typhus aged 27 on a visit of Jerusalem.