About Geoffrey Gates
Born 1550. Geoffrey Gates was a politician.
Geoffrey Gates (c.1550 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk - ?) was a Puritan MP for various Cornish constituencies. He represented St Mawes constituency, West Looe constituency and Camelford constituency. He was elected to St Mawes in the 1572 English general election, to West Looe in 1584 and to Camelford in 1586.
Gates also wrote a treatise called The Defence of Militarie Profession.
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