BATEMAN, HEZEKIAH LINTHICUM American actor and manager, was born in Baltimore, Md., on Dec. 6, 1812. He was intended for an engineer, but in 1832 became an actor, playing with Ellen Tree (afterwards Mrs. Charles Kean) in juvenile leads. In 1855 he became manager of the St. Louis thea tre and in 1859 moved to New York. In 1866 he was manager for his daughter Kate, and in 1871 went to London, where he took the Lyceum theatre. Here he engaged Henry Irving, presenting him first in The .Bells, with great success. He died on March 22, His wife, SIDNEY FRANCES (1823-1881), daughter of Joseph Cowell, an English actor who had settled in America, was an actress and the author of several popular plays, in one of which, Self (1857), she and her husband made a great success. After her husband's death Mrs. Bateman continued to manage the Lyceum till 1875. She later took the Sadler's Wells theatre, which she man I aged until her death on Jan. 13, 1881. She was the first to bring to England an entire American company with an American play, Joaquin Miller's The Danites.
Mr. and Mrs. Bateman had eight children, three of the four daughters being specially educated for the stage. The two oldest, Kate Josephine (1842-1917), and Ellen, known as the "Bateman children," began their theatrical career at an early age. In 1862 Kate played in New York as Juliet and Lady Macbeth, and in 1863 had a great success in London as Leah in Mosenthal's Deborah. In 1866 she married George Crowe, but returned to the stage in 1868, playing later as Lady Macbeth with Henry Irving, and in various other roles. After 1892 she conducted a school of acting. Her daughter, Sidney Crowe (b.
1871), also became an actress.
Virginia (Mrs. Edward Comp ton) and Isabel, younger sisters of Kate Bateman, were also well known on the London stage.