Francis Tate

Francis Tate (1560–1616) was an English antiquary and politician, Member of Parliament for Northampton and Shrewsbury.

On 20 December 1577 he matriculated as a commoner at Magdalen College, Oxford, but left the university without a degree and entered the Middle Temple.

On 22 February 1604 he was placed on commissions of the peace in the counties of Glamorgan, Brecknock, and Radnor, and from 1604 till 1611 he sat in parliament as member for Shrewsbury.

In 1607 he was Lent reader in the Middle Temple, and about the same time was employed as justice itinerant in South Wales.

Tate made antiquarian collections which were used by William Camden and others, but remained unpublished at his death.

The title page of The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquaries (1658), the publication of which was arranged by John Dodderidge . Tate is named on the page as one of his treatises was published in the work.