Herbert Bate Explained

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]}

Notes and References

1. [The Times]
2. http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33834/pages/3782/page.pdf London Gazette
3. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
4. His father was the Rev. George Osborn Bate "Who was Who" 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991
5. Ordinations. Oxford The Times Tuesday, 22 September 1896; p. 5; Issue 35002; col D
6. [The Times]
7. [The Times]
8. Amongst others he wrote "Church History to ad 325", 1901; "The Healthful Spirit", 1910; "Sibylline Oracles, III-V", 1918; "Guide to the Epistles of St Paul", 1926; and "Faith and Order", 1927 British Library web site accessed 9 October 2010
9. [The Times]
10. Burke's Landed Gentry 1952, p. 221, Bosanquet of Dingestow pedigree
11. University of Cambridge Video and Audio Collections: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers, interview conducted by Alan MacFarlane, 2012 URL= https://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1112471 Date accessed= 1 May 2018