Deramore Avenue

Year approved: 1888
On the application of the owners of property adjoining. your Committee have named a new street off Ormeau Road Deramore Avenue, and two new streets off Crumlin Road, Rosewood Street and Yarrow Street. Northern Whig - Tuesday 03 July 1888 We surmise this street may have been called after Lord Deramore Thomas Bateson who was the son of Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, of Belvoir Park, County Down. In 1885 he was created Baron Deramore, of Belvoir. These words were spoken at Belvoir Park Manor which he owned: The following was reported in the Belfast News-Letter – Friday 04 December 1885: “My Lord We, your Lordship’s tenants, on your Moira, Newtownbreda; Malone, and Tullyard estates, together with your friends in these immediate neighbourhoods, desire to convey to your Lordship and Lady Deramore our warmest congratulations on your having received from our Most Gracious Sovereign – the dignity of a peerage of the United Kingdom. We consider this high honour is enhanced owing to its being offered by the Queen without solicitation on your part–(hear, hear) -and we rejoice that the peerage has been conferred, not merely on you personally, but that her Majesty has been graciously pleased to attach to the patent a remainder continuing the dignity to your brother and his heirs, this perpetuating the honour in a family universally esteemed for their many excellent qualities.”