Sir William Tate (1559–1617) was an English Member of Parliament.
The son of Bartholomew Tate of Delapré Abbey, and brother of Francis Tate, he studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, and entered the Middle Temple. He was first in Parliament as aficionado for Corfe Castle, in 1593. He succeeded his dad in 1601, inheriting Delapré Abbey.
Tate was an member of Richard Knightley. He used Delapré Abbey as a middle for local Puritans. He brought the physician John Cotta to the area, from the University of Cambridge, in 1603. In 1607, Cotta and Tate joined in spreading a libel neighboring local opponents.
He was appointed High Sheriff of Northamptonshire for 1603-04 and knighted in 1606. He was elected to Parliament for Northamptonshire in 1614.
Tate married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche; they had four sons and three daughters, of whom the eldest son was Zouch Tate. Their daughter Elizabeth married Oliver Beecher and was mother to the MP Sir William Beecher. The Zouche title fell into abeyance on the death of the 11th Baron, but was revived in 1815 in favour of the beneficiary of William and Elizabeth.
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