Bateson Crest
Quarterly, 1st and 4th, per pale Argent [silver] and Azure [blue], a chevron between three chaplet counterchanged and for distinction, a cross crosslet in the centre chief point counterchanged. For Yarburgh: 2nd and 3rd, Argent [silver], three bats wings erect Sable [black], on a chief Gules [red], a lion passant Or [Gold], for Bateson.
de Yarburgh Crest
Yarburgh:
A falcon close Or [gold], belled gold, preying upon a duck proper [natural colour] and for distinction, the falcon charged on the breast with a cross crosslet Azure [blue].
Bateson:
A bat’s wing erect Sable [black].
Motto:
The Yarburgh motto is Nocte Volamus, which means ‘We fly by night’.
The Bat’s wing of the Bateson and the Falcon of de Yarburgh come together in the Crest of Deramore Masonic Lodge No. 290.
Deramore Masonic Lodge No. 290’s crest is an amalgam of the two crests above as de Yarburgh-Bateson was the name of Lord Deramore.
If we dissect the Lodge Crest it is easy to see the make-up of it:
The Bateson Bat’s wing, and the de Yarburgh Falcon.
Silver Past Master's Jewel suspended from a sky blue ribbon by two silver bars.
The top bar has the name of the Lodge, "Deramore", with shamrocks at both ends
and a crown above the name, with two shamrocks either side.
The bottom bar has the number of the Lodge "Masonic Lodge 290". The Compass and Square is a standard silver Past Master's Jewel with a fixed "G".
The reverse of the Jewel bears the inscription:
"Presented to
W.Bro. John W. Crozier
by Masonic Lodge No. 290
1931"
Officer of the 39th Regiment of Foot c. 1754.
Warrant No. 290 originally issued to the 39th REGIMENT of FOOT on the 5th January, 1758. Warrant No. 290 became settled in CASTLETOWN, Isle of Man, in or about 1785 and was Cancelled on the 7th October, 1813.
Warrant No. 290 reissued to brethren in KELLS, Ballymena, County Antrim on the 24th June, 1821 and was Cancelled on the 7th September, 1843.
Warrant No. 290 reissued to `St. Leonard’s Lodge’, SYDNEY, New South Wales, Australia on 18th July, 1867 and was removed from the printed Report in 1886.
[The above represents the barest of facts relating to Warrant No. 290 before same reissued to Deramore Lodge No. 290 - the IRISH MASONIC RECORDS cd-rom gives a very full account of the Lodges who held Warrant No. 290 for the years set out above]
The material in this document is drawn from an unusually large number of sources, including family history records, Lodge Minutes, internet and personal correspondence. Unfortunately due to the lack of any written information and the passage of some one hundred and four years, all information to do with our Lodge crest had been lost. We know from our Lodge history sheets who named us Deramore but as to why the name Deramore was chosen and our association to the name is as yet unknown… the following account represents the Story of our Lodge crest as accurately as I have been able to establish it.
Thomas Bateson, 1st Baron Deramore
(4th June, 1819 – 1st December, 1890)
The Batesons or Deramores, as they become known after taking the title in 1885, lived at Belvoir until the latter years of the 19th century, they came to Ulster from Yorkshire. One branch of the family established itself at Orangefield in the early 18th Century. Thomas Bateson, father of Robert who became the owner of the Belvoir Estates, died at Orangefield in 1811. Robert Bateson, founder of the House of Deramore, was born in 1782 and died in 1863. He was created a Baronet in 1818. His eldest son Robert, was an MP for County Londonderry and died in Jerusalem, aged 27. On 24th December, 1847. His second son Thomas, was born on 4th June, 1819. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Deramore in 1885 and after 34 years of service in Parliament died on 1st December, 1890.
Baron Deramore of Belvoir in the County of Down, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 18th November, 1885 for the Conservative Member of Parliament Sir Thomas Bateson, 2nd Baronet. His father Thomas Bateson had been created a Baronet, of Belvoir Park in the County of Down, on 18th December, 1818 in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.
The Barony was created with special remainder to the first Baron's younger brother George, who succeeded him as second Baron. He was the husband of Mary Elizabeth de Yarburgh (died 1884), daughter and heiress of George John de Yarburgh, of Heslington Hall in Yorkshire, and assumed in 1876 by Royal license the additional surname of de Yarburgh. In 1892 Lord Deramore assumed the surname of Bateson after, instead of before that of de Yarburgh. He was succeeded by his son, the third Baron. He served as Lord-Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire from 1924 to 1936. On his death the titles passed to his younger brother, the fourth Baron. The titles became extinct on the death of his younger son, the sixth Baron (who had succeeded his elder brother), in 2006.
The former family seat was Heslington Hall, near York, which was acquired by the University of York in 1962 and now forms part of its campus. The Hall was lived in by the family of the Barons Deramore until c. 1940.
There is a plaque in Moira Parish Church to Sir Robert Bateson and also a family vault is under the obelisk in the Churchyard. Incidentally there is also a plaque to the first Lady Deramore in Moira Parish Church, and an identical plaque is also found in Knockbreda Parish Church in Belfast with which the family were also connected.
The present Lord Deramore is Arthur de Yarburgh-Bateson.
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