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OBITUARY NOTICE. 



Thomas Tate, Esq. 



On the 14th of December 1909 death deprived the Club 

 of one of its oldest members — Mr Thomas Tate. 



Mr Tate was a man of high character, great intelHgence, 

 and of fine scholarship, and a welcome attender at the meet- 

 ings of the Club. 



The second son of Mr Thomas Tate of Bank House, he was 

 born at Bilton on the 29th of November 1835 ; educated at 

 the famous Grammar School founded at Houghton-le-Spring 

 in 1574 by the apostolic Bernard Gilpin; articled in 185.3 to 

 his kinsman Mr Francis Pearson, a solicitor in Kirkby Lons- 

 dale, whence in 1859 he proceeded to London to continue his 

 legal studies with Mr Pearson's London agents ; was admitted 

 a solicitor in 1861, and settled down to the practice of the 

 law in the town of Alnwick in partnership with Mr James 

 Russell. 



An ardent sportsman, a capital shot, a keen rider to hounds, 

 he became Honorary Secretary of the Percy Hunt about the 

 year 1870, and, with tact and discretion, continued to discharge 

 the duties of that office until the month of April 1900. He 

 was also a golfer well known on the links at St. Andrew's, 

 and at Alnmouth, where he was one of the founders of the 

 Golf Club. 



