Stephen Batman

Stephen Batman or Bateman (died 1584) was an English translator and author.

Life

Batman was born at Bruton, Somerset and, after a preliminary education in the school of his native town, went to Cambridge,[1] where he had the reputation of being a learned man and an excellent preacher. It is supposed he was the Bateman who in 1534 took the degree of LL.B., being at that time a priest and a student of six years' standing. Afterwards Archbishop Parker selected him as one of his domestic chaplains, and employed him in the collection of the library now deposited in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Batman asserts that he collected 6,700 books for the archbishop, though this is probably an exaggeration. In 1573 he was rector of Merstham, Surrey. He was also Doctor of Divinity and parson of Newington Butts in the same county. In 1582 he was one of the domestic chaplains of Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon. He resided for some time at Leeds, Kent. His death occurred in 1584.

Publications

Spine from The Doome warning all men to the Judgemente, 1581

References

  1. "Bateman or Battman, Stephen (BTMN533S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Batman, Stephen". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 

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