George Tate

George Tate FGS
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Born	1805
Died	1871
Residence	Alnwick
Society Membership membership ASL local secretary left 1871 deceased elected_ASL 1863.06.09 clubs Berwickshire Naturalists Field Club societies Geological Society Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Palaeontographical Society

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secretary of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Field Club, Corresponding Member of the Society of Antiquaries, Scotland

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George Tate (1805–1871) was an English tradesman from Northumberland, known as a local topographer, antiquarian and naturalist. His major work was a history of his native town, Alnwick.
He was son of Ralph Tate, a builder, and the brother of Thomas Tate, the mathematician and chemist. His life was passed in 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 two of his death. He was active in the public life the town, helping to organise the Alnwick Mechanics' Scientific Institution, of which he acted as secretary for thirty years, and as the secretary of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club from 1858 until his death.[1]
Tate died on 7 June 1871, and was buried on the 9th in Alnwick churchyard, on the south side of the church.[1] He was a Fellow of the Geological Society, and honoured by other learned societies.[

Publications

External Publications

Tate's History of the Borough, Castle, and Barony of Alnwick, which appeared in parts between 1865 and 1869, was his major publication.

Tate also published in 1865 Sculptured Rocks of Northumberland and Eastern Borders.

Besides monographs on the Farne Islands, Dunstanburgh Castle, Long Houghton church, and Harbottle Castle, he prepared accounts of the Cheviot Hills, St. Cuthbert's beads, porpoises, the bulk and colour of the hair and eyes of the Northumbrians, the orange-legged hobby, and the common squirrel.[1]
Tate's account of his journey along the Roman wall, with his examination of its geology, was published as a part of John Collingwood Bruce's The Roman Wall (2nd edit. 1853). His account of the fossil flora of the eastern border was incorporated in George Johnston's work, The Natural History of the Eastern Borders, 1854; and that of the geology of Northumberland in John Gilbert Baker and George Ralph Tate's New Flora of Northumberland and Durham. He was the first to record marks of ice action on rocks in Northumberland.[1]