Zouch Tate (1606–1650) was an English Member of Parliament.

Life

He was the son of Sir William Tate and Elizabeth, daughter of

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, and nephew of

Francis Tate Francis Tate (1560–1616) was an English antiquary and politician, Member of Parliament for Northampton and Shrewsbury. Life Tate was born in 1560 at Gayton, the second son of Bartholomew Tate (d. 1601) of Delapre, Northamptonshire, by his wif ...

. He matriculated on 26 October 1621 at

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, and entered the

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in 1625. Tate represented

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in the

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, and swore the

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. In November 1644, he was appointed chairman of a committee to investigate

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accusations against the army, and on 9 December 1644 he moved the

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in the

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, proposing that no member of the Lords or Commons should hold any military or naval command. A speech delivered on 30 July 1645 was printed in ''Observations on the King and Queen's Cabinet of Letters'', 1645. Although not one of those members excluded by

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in December 1648, he is not recorded as having sat afterwards. He died in 1650.

References

*''Concise Dictionary of National Biography'' (1930) *D. Brunton & D. H. Pennington, ''Members of the Long Parliament'' (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
www.british-civil-wars.co.uk

Notes

;Attribution 1606 births 1650 deaths English MPs 1640–1648 Lay members of the Westminster Assembly Members of the Middle Temple Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford {{UK-politician-stub