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]