NAHUM, a poet and dramatist, the son of Dr Faithful Tate, was born in Dublin in the year 1652. He was educated in Trinity College, but did not betake himself to any profession. Upon the death of Shadwell in 1692, Tate succeeded him as poet laureate, and held that place until the reign of George I., whose first birthday ode he lived to write, and executed it with unusual spirit. He died in the Mint, a privileged place for debtors in those days, in 1715. He was the author of ten dramatic performances, a great number of poems, and a version of the Psalms in conjunction with Dr Brady, which was a slight improvement on the bathos of Sternhold and Hopkins. A list of his plays may be found in the *Biographia Dramatica*, vol. i. p. 703.