The House of Deramore

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.