There have been two Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Bates, both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Both creations are extant as of 2010.

The Bates Baronetcy, of Bellefield in the County of Lancaster, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 13 May 1880 for Edward Bates

Sir Edward Bates, 1st Baronet

Sir Edward Bates, 1st Baronet was a ship-owner and Conservative politician who represented Plymouth.Bates was the son of Joseph Bates, a wool finisher and exporter and his wife Rebekah Walker. He was sent to Calcutta in 1833 to join his elder brother in the business which his father had started...

, Conservative

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 Member of Parliament

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 for Plymouth

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. The fourth Baronet was Chairman of the Cunard

Cunard Line

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 Steam Ship Company and High Sheriff of Cheshire

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 in 1920. The fifth Baronet was High Sheriff

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 of Flintshire

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 in 1969 and was decorated with an MC

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 in 1942. The presumed seventh Baronet has not proven his succession and is consequently not on the Official Roll of the Baronetage.

The Bates Baronetcy, of Magherabuoy in the County of Londonderry, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 7 June 1937 for the Northern Irish politician Dawson Bates. He was Minister of Home Affairs

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 for Northern Ireland

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 from 1921 to 1943. As of 2010 the title is held by his grandson, the third Baronet, who succeeded his father in 1998.

Bates Baronets, of Bellefield (1880)

• Sir Edward Bates, 1st Baronet
  Sir Edward Bates, 1st Baronet
  Sir Edward Bates, 1st Baronet was a ship-owner and Conservative politician who represented Plymouth.Bates was the son of Joseph Bates, a wool finisher and exporter and his wife Rebekah Walker. He was sent to Calcutta in 1833 to join his elder brother in the business which his father had started...
  
   (1816 –1896)
• Sir Edward Percy Bates, 2nd Baronet (1845–1899)
• Sir Edward Bertram Bates, 3rd Baronet (1877–1903)
• Sir Percy Elly Bates, 4th Baronet (1879–1946)
• Sir Geoffrey Voltelin Bates, 5th Baronet (1921–2005)
• Sir Richard Geoffrey Bates, 6th Baronet (1946–2002)
• Sir James Geoffrey Bates, 7th Baronet (b. 1985)

Bates Baronets, of Magherabuoy (1937)

• Sir (Richard) Dawson Bates, 1st Baronet (1876–1949)
• Sir (John) Dawson Bates, 2nd Baronet (1921–1998)
• Sir Richard Dawson Hoult Bates, 3rd Baronet (b. 1956)