England,’ dated 30 April 1600; on the ‘Antiquity, Authority, and Succession of the High Steward of England,’ dated 4 June 1603, and his ‘Questions about the Ancient Britons’ are all printed in Hearne's ‘Curious Discourses,’ 1775. A treatise ‘Of the Antiquity of Parliaments in England,’ extant in Harleian MS. 305 and in Lansdowne MS. 491, is printed in Doddridge's ‘Several Opinions,’ 1658; and a similar ‘Discourse importing the Assembly of Parliament’ is extant in Harleian MS. 253. His ‘King Edward II's Household and Wardrobe Ordinances … Englisht by F. Tate,’ was printed by the Chaucer Society in 1876 (2nd series, No. 14). Letters to Sir Robert Cotton are extant in Cottonian MS. Julius C iii. ff. 97, 103, and to Camden in Julius F. vii. f. 288. Wood also mentions ‘Nomina Hydarum in com. Northampton,’ which was used by Augustine Vincent [q. v.] in his ‘Survey of Northamptonshire,’ an ‘Explanation of the abbreviated Words in Domesday Book,’ and a collection of ‘Learned Speeches in Parliaments held in the latter end of Q. Elizabeth and in the Reign of K. James I,’ which have not been traced. Copies of most of Tate's works are extant among the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum (see Index to Catalogue, 1896).
Zouch Tate (1606–1650), parliamentarian, son of Francis Tate's brother, Sir William (d. 1617), by his wife Eleanor, daughter of William, lord Zouch, matriculated on 26 Oct. 1621 from Trinity College, Oxford, entered the Middle Temple in 1625, and was returned to the Long parliament as member for Northampton in 1640. He sided with parliament in the civil war, took the covenant, and in 1644 moved the famous self-denying ordinance. His speech, delivered on 30 July 1645, was printed in ‘Observations on the King and Queen's Cabinet of Letters,’ 1645. He was sequestered in 1648, and died in 1650 (Wood, Athenæ, ii. 179–80; Walker, Sufferings of the Clergy, i. 91; Foster, Alumni Oxon. 1500–1714; Bridges, Northamptonshire, i. 366).
[Works in Brit. Mus. Library; Catalogues of Harleian, Cottonian, and Lansdowne MSS.; Cal. State Papers, Dom.; Off. Return of Members of Parl.; Camden's Annals of James I, s.a. 1616; Wood's Athenæ, ii. 179; Dugdale's Orig. Jurid.; Bridges's Northamptonshire; Foster's Alumni Oxon. 1500–1714.]
TATE, GEORGE (1745–1821), admiral in the Russian navy, born in London on 19 June 1745, belonged to a Northamptonshire family, three members of which had been lord mayors of London—in 1473, 1488, 1496 and 1513. His father, George Tate, who served for some time in the Russian navy, and was afterwards settled in London as an agent for the Russian admiralty, emigrated to North America about 1754, and settled at Falmouth in Maine, where he kept up a trade connection with Russia, and where he died at the age of ninety-four in 1794. His sons seem to have been all brought up to the sea.
George, the third son, entered the Russian navy, and in 1770 was made a lieutenant, probably in the fleet under John Elphinston [q. v.] He is said to have distinguished himself in several engagements against the Turks and the Swedes. At the capture of Ismail in December 1790 he was wounded. He was promoted to be rear-admiral and presented with a miniature of the empress Catharine II, set in diamonds. In 1795 he had a command in the squadron of twelve ships of the line sent, under Vice-admiral Hanikoff, to co-operate with the English; though they are said to have been in such a bad state that we ‘derived no other advantage from them than the honour of repairing them and supplying their wants’ (Brenton, Naval History, ii. 98). After a short experience of them, they were sent home as worse than useless. In 1796 and again in 1799 as vice-admiral, Tate commanded a squadron in the North Sea. He was made admiral and senator by Alexander I, and received the orders of St. Waldemar, Alexander Newsky, and St. John. He died suddenly, unmarried at St. Petersburg on 17 Feb. 1821. To the last he kept up a correspondence with his family in the States, and occasionally visited them. He is described as of middle height, stout build, dark complexion. His portrait and letters, with others of his papers, are in the possession of his grand-niece, Eliza Ingraham, and her family of Portland, Maine.
[Information from the family; Willis's Hist. of Portland, Maine (2nd edit. 1865), p. 840; Lord Camperdown's Admiral Duncan; Gent. Mag. 1821, i. 378.]
TATE, GEORGE (1805–1871), topographer and naturalist, born in 1805, was son of Ralph Tate, builder, and the brother of Thomas Tate [q. v.], mathematician. His life was passed in his native town, Alnwick, of which he was a freeman by right of birth. There, in his earlier years, he carried on the business of a linendraper. In 1848 he was appointed postmaster, and held the office till within a fortnight of his death. He was active in all public movements in the town. He helped to organise the work of the Alnwick Mechanics' Scientific Institution, of which he acted as secretary for thirty years, and he
