About Henry Gates
Lived 1515 – 1589 (aged 73–74). Henry Gates was a politician.
Sir Henry Gates (c. 1515 – 7 April 1589), of Seamer, Yorkshire; Kilburn, Middlesex; Kew, Surrey and Havering, Essex, was an English courtier, politician, and diplomat.
Gates was a younger son of Geoffrey Gates of High Easter, Essex, and the brother of John Gates. They met Regent Moray in the Great Hall of Stirling Castle on 19 January 1570, and had a discussion in his bedchamber after dinner. Ralph Sadler paid Gates £50 for the expenses of this journey. Moray was assassinated three days later in Linlithgow.
Death Gates died on 7 April 1589. with whom he had 4 sons and 4 daughters; and second Katherine, the daughter of Watkin Vaughan of Bredwardine, Herefordshire and the widow of James Boyle of Hereford. His son Edward also became an MP.
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