Herbert Bate
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Herbert Newell Bate[1] was Dean of York between 1932[2] and 1941.[3]
Born in 1871 into a clerical family,[4] he was educated at St Paul's and Trinity College, Oxford and ordained in 1896.[5] He was a Tutor of Keble College, Oxford until 1897 when he became a Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford[6] and Dean of Divinity. He held incumbencies at St Stephen's Hampstead[7] and Christ Church, Lancaster Gate before 8 years as a Canon at Carlisle Cathedral. He was Rector of Hadleigh, Suffolk and Dean of Bocking, Essex until his appointment to York. An eminent author,[8] he died on 18 May 1941.[9]
Neuroscientist Mike Bate is his grandson (son of Herbert Bate's elder son, John Gordon Bate, M.B. Ch.B., an R.A.F. doctor, of Holmbury St Mary, Dorking).[10][11]