Surname: Tate Forename(s): Francis Blackburne d. 4 June 1887. Nationality: English.
Poet and clergyman. Born in Threlkeld, Keswick. Educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Ordained in 1833. Vicar of Charing, Kent (1838). Chaplain to the British Army in Quebec,
Canada (1859). Curate of Threlkeld, Cumberland (1872-1874), Newton-Reigny, Cumbria
(1874-1876), and Kirkby Ravensworth, Yorkshire (1876-1878). Biographical information:
Crockford p. 843; Norman MacLeod, Good Words, December, Strahan & Co. Magazine Publishers, 1866, p. vi; Venn, part 2, vol. 6,
p. 113. (CC)