James Thomas Bateman
James Thomas Bateman (1850-1936)
1936 Obituary [1]
JAMES THOMAS BATEMAN was consulting engineer to Messrs. Loders and Nucoline, Ltd., of Silvertown.
He was born in London in 1850 and was apprenticed in 1868 to Messrs. Langley and Sons, engineers and shipbuilders, of Deptford and Rotherhithe.
In 1872 he became a draughtsman to Messrs. Ratcliffe and Sons, engineers and boilermakers, of Hawarden Ironworks, near Chester.
Four years later he was appointed chief draughtsman to Messrs. Kerr, Stuart and Company, Ltd., of Stoke on Trent, and in 1881 he accepted a similar position with Messrs. Tangye, Ltd., Birmingham.
He became works manager to Messrs. Ross and Walpole, of Dublin, in the following year and in 1884 was made general manager to Messrs. Carter, Ford and Company, Ltd., of Darlaston.
Two years later he went in a similar capacity to the Charlestown Foundry and Ironworks, Cornwall.
He returned to London in 1889 as chief assistant to Messrs. H. Young and Company, of Pimlico, and carried out the constructional engineering work on some of London's largest buildings.
In 1892 he became chief engineer to Messrs. Lever Brothers, Ltd., Port Sunlight, and was responsible for large extensions to their works.
He went to Dawson City, Yukon, in 1898, as engineer to a gold-mining company, and returned to England in 1901 to become works manager to Messrs. Loders and Nucoline, whose works were then at Hammersmith.
In 1913 he retired from that position and was made consulting engineer to the company and was also engaged on other consulting work. During the War he was attached to the Ministry of Munitions on plant valuation work.
He continued his consulting work after the War until within a few years of his death, which occurred on 13th March 1936.
Mr. Bateman had been a Member of the Institution since 1896.