BATE, GEORGE, an eminent physician, born at Maid's
Bate Isle Morton, near Buckingham, in the year 1608. In 1629 he obtained a license, and for some years practised in and about Oxford; but 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, Dr Bate was his principal physician. When the king's affairs declined, he 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, and was made principal physician to the king, and fellow of the Royal Society; all which preferment, it is said, was owing to a report raised on purpose by his friends, that he had given the Protector a dose which hastened his death. Dr Bate wrote in Latin an account of the civil commotions 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 principal Conspirators of that horrid Murder of our late pious and sacred King Charles I."