The Children of Sir Richard Dawson Bates and Jessie Muriel Cleland

The son of Sir Richard Dawson Bates and Jessie Muriel Cleland was Major Sir John Dawson Bates (1921-1998). He was the second Baronet of Magherabuoy and married Mary Murray Hault in 1953. 

Sir John was a fifth cousin of Hetty Jane Owen’s children, Harold and Olwen Eldridge.

Magherabuoy House. Sir Richard Dawson Bates, the fourth cousin of Hetty Jane Owen, lived here from 1934 to 1947. The house is about twenty minutes’ drive from Giants’ Causeway, and is now a hotel.

Of the three children of Sir John and Mary, we might just pause to note that Sir Richard Dawson Hoult Bates (born 1956) is the third Baronet. He is the sixth cousin of all the children of Harold Eldridge, the son of Hetty Jane Owen. He married Harriet Scaramella in 2001.