Charles Bateson was a maritime historian, journalist and author.
11 Facts About Charles Bateson
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Charles Henry Bateson was born in Wellington, New Zealand, son of Charles Bateson, a company manager born Liverpool, England, and mother Alice Lowe, nee Rossiter, from Wales.
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Charles Bateson was educated at Hurworth school, Taranaki, before migrating to Australia in 1922.
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Charles Bateson worked as a journalist for a number of Australian papers.
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Charles Bateson worked for newspaper proprietor Ezra Norton's "Truth and Sportsman Ltd" becoming a talented administrator and lead writer for the Sydney Truth and Melbourne Truth.
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Charles Bateson was editor of The Log, the official journal of the Australian and New Zealand branch of the World Ship Society between 1958 and 1966.
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Charles Bateson completed the first volume in what was to be a six volume series of books on maritime disasters in Australia.
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Charles Bateson bequeathed his collection of 1300 books and his personal papers to the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.
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Shortly after arriving in Australia, Charles Bateson met and married journalist Coy Catherine Foster-Lynam on 27 August 1923 at St Peter's Anglican Church East Sydney.
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Charles Bateson pursued his interests in military, naval and maritime history throughout his life particularly in retirement and was a member of the Royal Australian Historical Society.
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Charles Bateson died of coronary vascular disease at Vaucluse in Sydney on 5 July 1974, survived by his second wife Ann and daughter Louise of his first marriage.