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  Henry Tate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tate was born in Chorley, Lancashire, the son of a clergyman.
Tate was made a baronet in 1898, the year before his death.
In 1921, after Tate's death, Henry Tate and Sons merged with Abram Lyle and Sons to form Tate and Lyle.
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 EIGHTH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
Henry TATE was born in 1712 in, New Kent Co., Virginia.
Tabitha TATE was born in 1737 in, Hanover Co., Virginia.
Sarah Henry TATE was born in 1760 in, Bedford Co., Virginia.
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 tatefamily
NATHANIEL TATE, son of Henry Tate, is plainly of record, in Bedford County, Virginia, in 1773, when he married Rhoda Terry, on February 22, and again when he took his second wife, Susannah Gilliam, on January 26, 1778.
ZACHARIAH TATE, son of Nathaniel, and Susannah Gilliam Tate, was born in Virginia, in 1781.
In 1802, Zachariah Tate was united in marriage to Permelia Nichols, a daughter of Captain John Nichols, who was a farmer and flsmith, of Bedford County, and served his state as Captain in the Militia.
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 Knowledge King - Henry Tate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
Sir Henry Tate (March 11, 1819 – December 5, 1899) was an English sugar merchant, noted for establishing the Tate Gallery in London.
In 1859 Tate became a partner in John Wright & Co. sugar refinery, and he sold his groceries in 1861.
In 1921, after Tate's death, Henry Tate & Sons merged with Abram Lyle & Sons to form Tate and Lyle.
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 Tate & Lyle > Our Business > History
Henry had an eye for innovations and technological advances, and during the construction of the Love Lane Refinery in Liverpool, he adapted the plans so he could incorporate a new refining technique to increase the yield of white sugar.
Henry Tate was created a baronet in 1898 and died in 1899, having endowed his collection of contemporary paintings to the nation.
Tate and Lyle achieved total sales in the year to 31 March 2004 of £3,167 million, thanks to the efforts of the 6,700 employees in its subsidiaries, and 4,800 in joint ventures.
www.tate-lyle.co.uk /TateAndLyle/our_business/history/history_timeline.htm   (3742 words)

  
 Tate
Robert Tate and wife Anne had at least six children; only their six sons are known, but it is entirely possible they had one or more daughters.
Henry Tate was likely a carpenter by profession as a court record shows one William Price apprenticed to him to learn the trade of carpentry.
Henry's wife, Sarah Netherland, had inherited land from her father, and apparently they lived on this land in Louisa County at some point, as their first nine, of twelve, children were born there.
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 SIR HENRY TATE - LoveToKnow Article on SIR HENRY TATE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
It had always been his intention to leave it to the nation, but in the way of carrying out this generous desire there stood several obstacles.
The National Gallery could not have accepted more than a selection from Tate's pictures, which were not all up to the standard of Trafalgar Square; and even xxvi.
What Tate offered was to spend 80,000 upon a building if the government would provide the ground; and in 1892 this offer was accepted.
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 Tate, Henry
Born on 27 October 1873 at Prahran, Melbourne, the son of Henry Tate, accountant and Eliza née Mathews.
Tate was blessed with an extraordinary talent and never specialised in one particular area of the arts, for he did more than compose music.
Tate found time to enjoy the game of chess for which he wrote for The Australasian (1914-15), The Leader (1912-15) and The Herald and Weekly Times (1913-14) newspapers, devised more than sixty original problems and was deft enough to represent Victoria.
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 BBC News | ARTS | Tate galleries' success story
Tate persuaded the government to agree to commission and run the building in 1894, and his efforts paid off three years later when the brand new gallery opened at Millbank.
Tate Britain was to occupy the whole of the building at Millbank, and be devoted to British art from 1500 to the present day.
Tate Britain, meanwhile, also hit headlines as it continued to hold the controversial Turner Prize, which was instrumental in bringing artists including Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin to the public's attention.
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 LONDON LOST AND FOUND I art : features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
The Tate Modern is more likely to be an idea about art at a certain moment, or a certain time, or a certain theme in art.
At the Tate Britain, the idea of the collection displays is to try to explore the relationships between art and Britishness as part of the need to rationalise isolating the art of a country.
At the Tate Britain we’re getting to a point where there will be a number of rooms which just stay put because I think the price you pay is that there are certain constituency visitors who get very cross when every time they come their favourite picture has moved.
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 Encyclopedia: Henry Tate
Henry Tate (19th century photograph) This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years.
The Tate Gallery in the United Kingdom is a network of four galleries and a virtual presence: Tate Britain (opened 1897), Tate Liverpool (1988), Tate St Ives (1993), Tate Modern (2000) and Tate Online (1998).
Tate and Lyle PLC is a UK based multinational food manufacturer and is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol TATE.
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 Henry Tate, sugar magnate, philanthropist and Unitarian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
Tate Sir Henry Tate died on 5 December 1899.
He was the founder of the Tate Gallery, in London, which opened on 21 July 1887 and to which he gave his own collection of 65 paintings, a number of which were by Millais.
His fortune came from sugar refining and from his patenting of the means of cutting sugar into dice-sized cubes.
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 TATE & LYLES
In 1859, Henry Tate, a successful grocer in Liverpool joined the firm as a partner.
Henry Tate realised that a more efficient production on a much larger scale was needed if British sugar refining was to survive European competition.
In 1921 Tate’s amalgamated with Lyle’s of Greenock.
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 Tate | FAQs: History
An industrialist who had made his fortune as a sugar refiner, Henry Tate offered his collection of art to the nation on the condition that a gallery dedicated to British art was built.
The son of a clergyman, Tate was born in Chorley, Lancashire and was educated in his father’s own school until the age of thirteen when he moved to Manchester to become a grocer’s assistant.
Tate himself attempted to donate sixty paintings to the Gallery but there was not enough space to house them.
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 Henry Tate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
Sir Henry Tate (March 11, 1819 –; December 5, 1899)was an English sugar merchant, noted forestablishing the Tate Gallery in London.
In 1872, he purchased the Langen patent on amethod of making sugar cubes, and in the same year built a new refinery in Liverpool.
In 1889 he donated his collection of 65 contemporarypaintings to the government, on the condition that they be displayed in a suitable gallery, toward the construction of which healso donated £80,000.
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 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
Sir Henry Tate (1819-1899), well-known as the Tate of Tate and Lyle, and as the founder of the Tate Gallery in London, is typical of many 19 century Unitarians who combined a simple religious faith with quiet philanthropy and a shrewd sense of business.
The National Gallery of British Art, popularly known as the Tate Gallery, was built at his expense on the site of the old Millbank prison, and was opened by the Prince and Princess of Wales on 21 July 1897.
Tate's own collection of 65 paintings by contemporary artists - most notably Millais (1829-1896) - provided the nucleus of the Gallery.
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 The Tate Gallery
The Tate Gallery, which is in Westminster, near Vauxhall Bridge, has an interesting history, new as it looks.
It is to Sir Henry Tate that we owe the building and some sixty of the pictures it shelters.
Henry Tate invented a machine that would cut up the sugar loaves into small pieces just the size wanted for a cup of tea.
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 Tate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tate, Georgia, a town in the United States
Tate, the company founded by Henry Tate, now known as Tate and Lyle
TATE, an abbriviation of the Tony/Kate character shipping for the CBS show Navy NCIS
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 Commerce and Entrepreneurs in Manchester - Charles Mackintosh, Henry Tate, Waring & Gillow, John Whittaker and Hugh ...
Born in Chorley, Lancashire in 1819, Henry Tate was to eventually make his name and fortune as a sugar magnate and multi-millionaire, and the donor of the celebrated Tate Gallery London to the nation.
In 1881 Tate contributed £42,000 to the University College London and made other donations to the Hahnemann Hospital and the Liverpool Royal Infirmary.
Tate had amassed a sizeable collection of British paintings at his home in Park Hill and decided to give them to the nation, to be housed in the New Tate gallery on the Millbank site, which had been donated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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 Best of Terrain.org - Month of Wild Berries Picking, by Theresa Kishkan
Tate was a Tsimshian Indian from Port Simpson, near Prince Rupert, on the west coast of British Columbia.
When she and her new husband are preparing to choose a den for the winter, she keeps warning that her brothers know the den area and that the family bear-hunting dogs know it as well.
The bears burrow under trees to hibernate for the winter, and it is the smell of their bodies in the landscape, rubbed on balsam firs as they passed, grease in the sand and rocks, that is their undoing; it brings the hunting dogs and the brothers-in-law.
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 Elsewhere: London - The Tate Britain - Representing Britain
The Tate was designed to house the collection of 19th Century painting and sculpture given to the nation by Sir Henry Tate and a group of British paintings transferred from the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square.
Tate, whose director recently participated in a symposium at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which is currently having a year-long series of exhibitions that also take a thematic rather than chronological approach to the display of its treasures as it prepares for a major expansion of its facilities.
Henry Fuseli’s (1741-1825) "Titania and Bottom" illustrates a scene from Shakespeare’s "A Midsummers Nights Dream"- Titania’s magic potion ensures she will fall in love with the first person she sees, who turns out to be Bottom, with the head of an ass.
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 Tate Coat of Arms
The Tate surname is derived from the Old English personal name "Tata," which may have been a shortened version of some other names.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Edward Tate, who came to Massachusetts sometime between 1620 and 1650; Thomas Tate, who arrived in Virginia in 1635; James Tate, who came to Barbados in 1635.
Tate and Allied Families of Robertson County, Tennessee by Evelyn Yates Carpenter, Taylors and Tates of the South by Ann K. Blomquist, Van Buren Tate: Ancestors, Descendants by Rachel Tate Smith.
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 TATE: The Descendants of James Lee Tate
Henry Giffin "Giff" TATE was born on 17 Jul 1869, died about 1955 in Lawrence Co, AR and was buried in Lawrence Mem Cem, Lawrence, AR.
Rufus Clifton TATE was born on 10 Jun 1902, died in 1956 in Black Rock, Lawrence, AR and was buried in Black Rock Cem, Lawrence, AR 20 F vi.
James Miller TATE was born on 19 Jul 1893 in Lawrence Co, AR, died on 12 Mar 1958 in Black Rock, Lawrence, AR and was buried in Black Rock Cem, Lawrence, AR.
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 Britannia Travel News Centre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
The opening in May 2000 of Tate Modern at Bankside, has allowed the Millbank building to revert to the original intention of its founder, Sir Henry Tate, as the national gallery of British art.
Tate's British collection is constantly growing through the purchase, gift and bequest of works of art.
For the opening of Tate Britain, a suite of rooms is devoted to showing some of the acquisitions made over the last ten years.
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 Artshole.co.uk - Tate Modern - Henry Moore: Public Sculptures
Henry Moore: Public Sculptures brings together around twenty works by the sculptor in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern.
The selection is predominantly drawn from the Tate Collection, which benefited from the artist’s substantial gift in 1978.
Henry Moore studied at the Leeds College of Art (1919-1921), and the Royal College of Art, London (1921-1925).
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 Tate | Work In Focus: Millais's Ophelia | Ophelia's Travels
Sir Henry Tate not only presented his collection of 65 paintings and two pieces of sculpture to the nation, (most of it was work from the Victorian period), but he also funded the building to house them and financed the first extensions in 1899.
Sir Henry Tate made his decision to give his pictures to the nation in 1889 and wrote to the Trustees and Director of the National Gallery in a letter dated 23rd October.
Sir Henry Tate then offered his collection to the Government on condition that a gallery be provided that he approved of.
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 Baby Tate, MP3 Music Download at eMusic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
Born Charles Henry Tate, he was born in Elberton, GA, but raised in Greenville, SC.
Tate served in the U.S. Army in the late '30s and early '40s.
Tate picked up music again in 1946, setting out on the local blues club circuit.
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 Henry Tate - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Henry Tate - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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 Henry Tate'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
I Henry Tate of the County of Carroll and State of Tennessee do make and publish this my last will and Testoment hereby revoking and making void all and any other wills by me at any other time made.
Thirdly should either of the before mentioned children die previous to the death of my beloved wife then and in that case the property to be equally devided between the Servivors.
This day the last will and Testament of Henry Tate Deceased was produced into open court and the Execution duly proven by the oaths of John F Algea and James Mc Mullen the subscribing witness, and ordered to be recorded
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