BATE, GEORGE, an eminent physician, born at
Maid's Morton, near Buckingham, in the year 1608.
In 1629 he obtained a license, and for some years
practised in and about Oxford: his practice was chiefly
amongst the Puritans, who at that time considered him
as one of their party. In 1637, he took his degree
of doctor in physic, and became very eminent in his
profession, so that when King Charles kept his court at
Oxford, he was his principal physician. When the
king's affairs declined, Dr. Bate removed to London,
where he accommodated himself so well to the times, that
he became physician to the Charter-house, fellow of the
college of physicians, and afterwards principal physician
to Oliver Cromwell. Upon the Restoration, he got into
favour with the royal party, was made principal phy-
sician to the king, and fellow of the Royal Society;
and this, we are told, was owing to a report raised on
purpose by his friends, according to Mr. Wood, that
he gave the protector a dose which hastened his death.
Dr. Bate wrote in Latin an account of the late commo-
tions in England, and some other pieces. He died
at his house in Hatton-garden, and was buried at
Kingston upon Thames in Surrey.—There was another
George Bate, who wrote a work entitled, "The Lives,
Actions, and Execution, of the prime Actors and prin-
cipal Contrivers of that horrid Murder of our late
pious and sacred King Charles I."