TATE (Nahum), an English poet, born about the middle of the reign of Charles II. in Ireland, where he received his education. He was made poet-laureate to king William upon the death of Shadwell, and held that place until the reign of George I. whose first birth-day ode he lived to write, and executed it with unusual spirit. He died in the mint in 1716, and was succeeded in the laurel by Mr Eusden. He was the author of nine dramatic performances, a great number of poems, and a version of the Psalms in conjunction with Dr Nicholas Brady.