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Tate

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Tate
1. (John Orley) Allen. 1899--1979, US poet and critic
2. Sir Henry. 1819--99, British sugar refiner and philanthropist; founder of the Tate Gallery
3. Nahum . 1652--1715, British poet, dramatist, and hymn-writer, born in Ireland: poet laureate (1692--1715). He is best known for writing a version of King Lear with a happy ending


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The schooner paused not, but rushing across the harbour, pitched herself on that accumulation of sand and gravel washed by many tides and many storms into the southeast corner of the pier jutting under the East Cliff, known locally as Tate Hill Pier.
His death followed shortly, but meanwhile appeared the Second Part of 'Absalom and Achitophel,' chiefly a commonplace production written by Nahum Tate (joint author of Tate and Brady's paraphrase of the Psalms into English hymn-form), but with some passages by Dryden.
He was quite willing to satisfy our curiosity, and in a few minutes we learned that the Streak had come in after dark from San Francisco; that this was what might be called the trial trip; and that she was the property of Silas Tate, a young mining millionaire of California, whose fad was high-speed yachts.
 
 
 
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