A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Battine, William
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BATTINE, WILLIAM.
Lawyer and Poet.
1765—1836.
Admitted 19 May, 1773.
Only son of William Battine, of East Marden, Sussex. He was educated at Cambridge, where he took the degree of LL.B. in 1780, and LL.D. in 1785. In the same year he was admitted Doctor of Laws in London, and commenced practice in the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts. He became a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, and was on intimate terms with the Prince of Wales. In 1797 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Though he held many legal offices and acquired much wealth, he died in poverty, 5 Sept. 1836, and was buried at St. George's, Southwark.
His chief literary effort was a dramatic poem entitled Another Cain, written "to correct the blasphemy put into the mouth of Lucifer," in Byron's Cain.