Charles Spence Bate, FRS, FLS (16 March 1819 – 29 July 1889) was a British zoologist and dentist.
[3] He was an authority on the Crustacea, for which he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1861,[3] and a frequent correspondent of Charles Darwin, mostly concerning their shared interest in barnacles.
Together with John Obadiah Westwood, he wrote "A history of the British sessile-eyed Crustacea" in 1868.
He died on 29 July 1889, at The Rock, South Brent, Devon and was buried in Plymouth cemetery.
[3] On 17 June 1847, at Littlehempston church, near Totnes, he married Emily Amelia, daughter of John Hele and sister of the Rev.