Dingwall Latham Bateson
{{Short description|British lawyer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Dingwall Latham Bateson
| honorific_prefix = Sir
| birth_date = 7 July 1898
| birth_place = Kensington, London, UK
| death_date = 29 January 1967
| death_place = Merstham, Surrey, UK
| occupation = Solicitor
| spouse = Naomi Judith
}}
Sir Dingwall Latham Bateson, {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=|CBE|MC}} (7 July 1898 – 29 January 1967) was a British solicitor and President of the Law Society.{{cite news |title= Obituary: Sir Dingwall Bateson – A Law Society President |work=The Times |date=31 January 1967 |page=12 }}
Personal life
Bateson was born on 7 July 18981939 England and Wales RegisterLondon, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1917 in Kensington, London.1901 England Census He was the son of judge Sir Alexander Dingwall Bateson and Isabel Mary, the fourth daughter of William Latham QC. He had three brothers and two sisters.{{cite ODNB |last1=Middleton |first1=Noel |title=Bateson, Sir Alexander Dingwall (1866–1935), judge |year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/30639 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-30639 |access-date=26 March 2019 |language=en}}
In 1922, he married Naomi Judith, eldest daughter of composer Sir Walter Galpin Alcock. They had two sons and one daughter. One son, Timothy, became an actor.[https://books.google.com/books?id=lAC1AAAAIAAJ&q=%22dingwall+latham+bateson%22 Who's Who in the Theatre]
Bateson advised Noël Coward on financial affairs; Coward, in gratitude, named his speedboat "Dingo" after Bateson.Cole Lesley, The Life of Noel Coward, Jonathan Cape, 1976. Page 366 Bateson was also friends with Sir Roland Gwynne, Mayor of Eastbourne 1928-1931 and purported lover of serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams: he left Bateson his whole estate in his will, though in the end Bateson predeceased him.Pamela V. Cullen, "A Stranger in Blood: The Case Files on Dr John Bodkin Adams", London, Elliott & Thompson, 2006, {{ISBN|1-904027-19-9}}. Page 635
Career
=Military service=
Bateson served in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, British Army during the First World War. As part of the 1919 King's Birthday Honours, he was awarded the Military Cross (MC) whilst a second lieutenant attached to the 2nd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment "for distinguished service in connection with military operations in the Balkans".{{London Gazette|issue=31373|supp=y|page=6951|date=30 May 1919}}
=Professional career=
Bateson was a solicitor with Slaughter and May,http://www.biltongrange.net/do_download.asp?did=27445{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and then a partner at Walters & Hart Solicitors.{{cite book |title=Bateson, Sir Dingwall Latham |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-48100 |website=Who Was Who |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=26 March 2019 |date=1 December 2007|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U48100 |isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 }} From 1952 to 1953, he was president of the Law Society.
He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1946 Birthday Honours.{{London Gazette|issue=37598|date=4 June 1946|supp=y|pages=2783}} He was knighted as a Knight Bachelor in the 1953 Coronation Honours.{{London Gazette | issue=39863 |date=1 June 1953 |pages=2941 |supp=y }}
Death
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