Background
BATEMAN, Alfred Edmund was born on August 31, 1844. 7th son of late Reverend J. Bateman, Rector of East and West Leake, N ottinghamshire.
BATEMAN, Alfred Edmund was born on August 31, 1844. 7th son of late Reverend J. Bateman, Rector of East and West Leake, N ottinghamshire.
Repton; Brighton College.
Entered Ecclesiastical Commissioners. 1863; Board of Trade, 1865. Barrister 1872; Master of the Girdlers Company, 1886.
Treasurer of International Statistical Institute, 1897 -1909. Secretary to Commissions for French Commander Treaty Negotiations, 1877, 1881, and 1882. To International Sugar Conierences, 1887, 1888, and 1889.
To Trade and Treaties Committee, 1890-1892. British Delegate for Portuguese and Spanish Comml. Negotiations, 1892 and 1894.
President of Royal Statistical Society, 1897. Responsible for the Fiscal Blue Book of 1903. Member of Committee on Prison-made goods, 1895.
On Chinese Indemnity and Import Tariffs, 1901-1902. On Scotch Fiars Prices, 1900-1902. And of Royal Commissions on Food Supply in time of War, 1903-1905, and on Shipping Conferences, 1906-1909.
And Chairman of Sub-Cornmission which took evidence in South Africa, 1907. Late ComptrollerGeneral for Commerce, Labour, and Statistics at Board of Trade. Chairman of Advisory Committee on Commercial Intelligence, 1901-1905, and of Committee on International Exhibitions, 1906-1907.
Decorated for services to British Trade. Jubilee medal, 1897; Joint Manager of the Imperial Institute; a Chairman of Labour Arbitration Courts, and of London Advisory Committee of Labour Exchanges.
Clubs: Windham, National, Ranelagli, M.C.C.
Spouse 1868, Edith Ellen (d. 1909), o. c. of J. E. Hobson, of Eaton Socon, Beds.