Weston Arthur Bate OAM (24 September 1924[1] – 31 October 2017) was an Australian historian.
Bate served in the Royal Australian Air Force during the Second World War.
[2] He studied at the University of Melbourne under Manning Clark, Max Crawford, Kathleen Fitzpatrick and John O'Brien.
From 1978 until 1989 Bate held the foundation chair of Australian Studies at Deakin University, Geelong.
[3] Weston Arthur Bate was born on 24 September 1924 in Mont Albert, a suburb of Melbourne, to Ernest Bate (1883–1974) and Mary "Molly" Olive Akers.