STORM AND COMPANY

STORM AND COMPANY

WILLIAM BATESON 1861-1926

         
    Bateson is not a Bay family name but the interest is that William Bateson was born in Robin Hood's Bay on 8.8.1961 when his parents were on holiday from Cambridge where his father, William Henry Bateson, was Master of St John's College.

William Bateson became a Fellow of the Royal Society and was the founder of the science of genetics. He is one of the 50 Yorkshire characters listed by Sir Bernard Ingham in his Yorkshire Greats book. Sir Bernard referred to him as an "accidental Yorkshireman" but "he always showed the awkward, unbending traits of the true type, indulging in splendidly intemperate rows and still exciting scientists' angst, demonstrating that his Yorkshire genes were in proper working order".

 
  Photo from Ecyclopedia Britannica      

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