Henry Herbert Bateman
Henry Herbert Bateman (1970-1924)
1924 Obituary [1]
HENRY HERBERT BATEMAN was born in London On 12th November 1870, and was educated at private Schools in London and Paris, also at Rangoon College, Burma, from 1882 to 1887.
In the latter year he came home to England to serve an apprenticeship with Messrs. Merryweather and Sons, of Long Acre, London, and attended technical classes in the evenings.
On its completion four years later he returned to Burma, and entered the service of the Irrawaddy Flotilla as junior engineer, rising to the position of Chief Engineer in 1897. This post he held until 1903, when he was appointed consulting mechanical engineer to Messrs. Charles R. Cowie and Co., engineers and machinery importers, Rangoon.
From 1914 to 1916 he was employed by Messrs. Bulloch Brothers in erecting iron structures for various Bazaars in Upper Burma, and large tanks in Monywa for water supply. During the War he worked as engineer-in-charge on wolfram and tin concessions in Mergui, Lower Burma, and later acquired similar concessions for himself, working them until the end of the War, when the demand for wolfram ceased.
In 1920 he joined the London, Rangoon Trading Co. as engineer-in-charge of their stores, and held this position until his death, which took place accidentally from drowning while boating on the Royal Lakes, Rangoon, on 16th March 1924, in his fifty-fourth year.
He became a Member of this Institution in 1911.