The Great Landowners Of Great Britain & Ireland 1883
Giving brief details of individuals owning land in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to a total of 3,000 acres (1,200 ha) or valuation of £3000 annual income. It has become a standard primary source for historians of the Victorian era
The information was abstracted from the Return of Owners of Land (1873–1876), a government publication nicknamed the "Modern Domesday Book". Bateman collated the county-by-county information, correcting errors, allowing for variations in spelling of surnames, noting with footnotes and asterisks discrepancies and complexities of ownership or income. Owners noted in Evelyn Shirley's Noble and Gentle Men of England as in unbroken possession since the reign of Henry VII were given a special mark; later editions also separately marked owners not listed by Shirley but who protested to Bateman that they had the same antiquity.
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