Nahum Tate

Nahum Tate
Born	Nahum Teate 1652 Dublin, Ireland
Died	1715 (aged 62–63) Southwark, London, Great Britain
Resting place	Southwark St George, London
Occupation	Poet
Language	English
Ethnicity	Irish
Notable works	The History of King Lear
Notable awards	Poet Laureate of the Kingdom of England (1692)
Relatives	Faithful Teate (father)

Nahum Tate (/ˈneɪ.əm ˈteɪt/ NAY-əm TAYT; 1652 – 30 July 1715) was an Irish poet, hymnist and lyricist, who became England's poet laureate in 1692. Tate is best known for The History of King Lear, his 1681 adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear.

Nahum Tate was born in Dublin and came from a family of Puritan clerics. He was the son of Faithful Teate, an Irish cleric who had been rector of Castleterra, Ballyhaise, until his house was burnt and his family attacked after he had passed on information to the government about plans for the Irish Rebellion of 1641.

After living at the provost's lodgings in Trinity College, Dublin, Faithful Teate moved to England — the incumbent at East Greenwich around 1650, and "preacher of the gospel" at Sudbury from 1654 to 1658 — before returning to Dublin by 1660. He published a poem on the Trinity entitled Ter Tria, as well as some sermons, two of which he dedicated to Oliver and Henry Cromwell.

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