Robert Brian Tate, FBA, FRHistS (27 December 1921 – 21 February 2011) was a Northern Irish Hispanist and Renaissance scholar.
With his education interrupted by service as an officer in the British Army during the Second World War (he served in Southeast Asia), he completed his degree at Belfast in 1948.
His tutor Ignasi González i Llubera encouraged him to visit to Barcelona and Girona and he began an association with Spanish scholars including Vicens Vives and Pierre Vilar.
Tate also edited Directo de Príncipes: HSA MS HC: 371/164 (1977) for the Exeter Hispanic Texts series.
[2] He was the subject of a Festschrift: Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Honour of Robert Brian Tate, edited by Ian Michael and Richard A. Cardwell (1984).