Herbert Bate

Herbert Newell Bate (31 May 1871 – 18 May 1941) was an Anglican priest and theologian who was Dean of York between 1932 and 1941. He was a prolific writer and authored many books and articles.

Biography Born in Brixton, Surrey, into a clerical family, the son of Rev. George Osborn Bate. He was educated at St Paul's School, London and Trinity College, Oxford, where he earned first-class honours in modern classics. He was ordained in 1896. He was a tutor of Keble College, Oxford until 1897 when he became a Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford and Dean of Divinity. He held incumbencies at St Stephen's Hampstead and Christ Church, Lancaster Gate before eight years as a Canon at Carlisle Cathedral. He was Rector of Hadleigh, Suffolk and Dean of Bocking, Essex until his appointment to York.

Neuroscientist Mike Bate is his grandson (son of Herbert Bate's elder son, John Gordon Bate, an R.A.F. doctor, of Holmbury St Mary, Dorking).