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HEZEKIAH LINTHICUM BATEMAN (1812–1875)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 509 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HEZEKIAH LINTHICUM BATEMAN (1812–1875)  ,
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American actor and manager, was born in Baltimore,
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Maryland, on the 6th of December 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 was manager of the St Louis theatre for a few years and in 1859 moved to New York . In 1866 he was manager for his daughter Kate, and in 1871 returned to
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London, where he took the
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Lyceum theatre . Here he engaged Henry Irving, presenting him first in The Bells, with
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great success . He died on the 22nd of March 1875• His wife, SIDNEY FRANCES (1823-1881), daughter of Joseph Cowell, an
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English actor who had settled in
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America, was also an actress and the author of several popular plays, in one of which, Self (1857), She and her
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husband made a great success . After her husband's
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death Mrs Bateman continued to
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manage the Lyceum till 1875 . She later took the Sadler's Wells theatre, which she managed until her death on the 13th of
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January 1881 . She was the first to bring to England an entire American
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company with an American
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play, Joaquin Miller's The Danites . Mr and Mrs Bateman had eight children, three of the four daughters being educated for the stage . The two
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oldest, Kate' Josephine (b . 1842), and Ellen (b .

1845), known as the" Bateman children," began their theatrical career at an

early age . In 186 2 Kate played in New York as Juliet and Lady
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Macbeth; and in of
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insects new to science . His long residence in the tropics, with the privations which it entailed, undermined his
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health . Nor had the exile from home the compensation of freeing him from
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financial cares, which hung heavy on him till he had the good fortune to be appointed in 1864 assistant-secretary of the Royal
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Geographical Society, a
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post which, to the inestimable gain of the society, and the
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advantage of a succession of explorers, to whom he was alike Nestor and
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Mentor, he retained till his death on the 16th of
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February 1892 . Bates is best known as the author of one of the most delightful books of travel in the English language, The Naturalist on the
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Amazons (1863), the writing of which, as the correspondence between the two has shown, was due to Charles Darwin's persistent urgency . " Bates," wrote Darwin to
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Sir Charles Lyell, " is second only to Humboldt in describing a tropical
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forest." But his most memorable contribution to biological science, and more especially to that branch of it which deals with the agencies of modification of organisms, was his paper on the "
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Insect
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Fauna of the
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Amazon Valley," read before the Linnaean Society in 1861 . He therein, as Darwin testified, clearly stated and solved the problem of "
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mimicry," or the superficial resemblances between totally different
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species and the likeness between an animal and its surroundings, whereby it evades its foes or conceals itself from its prey . Bates's other contributions to the literature of science and travel were sparse and fugitive, but he edited for several years a periodical of Illustrated Travels . A man of varied tastes, he devoted the larger
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part of his leisure to entomology, notably to the classification of
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coleoptera . Of these he
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left an extensive and unique collection, which, fortunately for science, was
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purchased intact by Rene Oberthur of
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Rennes .

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