{{Short description|British zoologist and dentist (1819–1889)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Charles Spence Bate | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1819|03|16}} | birth_place = Truro, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1889|07|29|1819|03|16}} | author_abbrev_bot = Bate | spouse = {{Marriage |Emily Hele |17 June 1847 |4 April 1884 |end=d.}} }}
'''Charles Spence Bate''', {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS|FLS|sep=,|size=100%}} (16 March 1819 – 29 July 1889) was a British zoologist and dentist.
== Life == Charles Spence Bate was born at Trenick House near Truro, the son of Charles Bate (1789–1872) and Harriet Spence (1788–1879).<ref name="Carideorum">{{Cite journal|author=S. De Grave & C. H. J. M. Fransen |year=2011 |title=Carideorum Catalogus: the Recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) |journal=Zoologische Mededelingen |volume=85 |issue=9 |pages=195–589, figs. 1–59 |isbn=978-90-6519-200-4 |url=http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/85/nr02/a01 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121220093841/http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/85/nr02/a01 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-12-20 }}</ref> Charles adopted "Spence Bate" as his surname, perhaps to distinguish himself from his father, and used that name consistently in his publications; it was also used consistently by his contemporaries to refer to him.<ref name="Carideorum"/>
He practiced dentistry first at Swansea, and then at Plymouth, taking over his father's practice.<ref>{{Cite journal |author=Anonymous |journal=Geological Magazine |volume=6 |issue=11 |pages=526–528 |year=1889 |doi=10.1017/S0016756800189654 |title=Obituary: Charles Spence Bate, L.D.S.R.C.S. Engl., F.R.S., etc.|doi-access=free }}</ref> He was president of the Odontology Society.<ref name="RS">{{Cite web |title=Bate; Charles Spence (1819 - 1889) |url=https://catalogues.royalsociety.org/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons&id=NA6060 |access-date=2025-05-27 |website=The Royal Society Catalogue}}</ref>
He was an authority on the Crustacea, for which he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1861,<ref name = RS/> and a frequent correspondent of Charles Darwin, mostly concerning their shared interest in barnacles. Together with John Obadiah Westwood, he wrote "''A history of the British sessile-eyed Crustacea''" in 1868. He wrote reports on the crustaceans collected during the HMS ''Challenger'' expedition of 1872–1876.
He died on 29 July 1889, at The Rock, South Brent, Devon and was buried in Plymouth cemetery.<ref name = RS/>
== Family == On 17 June 1847, at Littlehempston church, near Totnes, he married Emily Amelia, daughter of John Hele and sister of the Rev. Henry Hele, the rector; she died on 4 April 1884, leaving two sons and a daughter.
Bate married for a second time in October 1887.{{Sfn|Courtney|1901}}
== Legacy == A number of species are named in his honour:<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.b.html |title=Charles Spence Bate |work=Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names |author=Hans G. Hansson |publisher=Göteborgs Universitet |accessdate=June 5, 2010 |archive-date=2 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211202163156/https://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.b.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> *''Pseudoparatanais batei'' <small>(G. O. Sars, 1882)</small> *''Amphilochus spencebatei'' <small>(Stebbing, 1876)</small> *''Scyllarus batei'' (<small>Holthuis, 1946)</small> *''Costa batei'' <small>(Brady, 1866)</small> *''Periclimenes batei'' (<small>Holthuis, 1959)</small>
== Bibliography == * {{cite book | last1=Bate | first1=C. Spence | author1-link=Charles Spence Bate | last2=Westwood | first2=J.O. | author2-link=John Obadiah Westwood | date = 1863–1868 | title = A History of the British Sessile-eyed Crustacea | location = London | publisher = John van Voorst | url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10117}} (in 2 volumes)
== References == {{Reflist|32em}} ;Attribution {{DNBSupp|wstitle=Bate, Charles Spence|first=William Prideaux|last=Courtney}}
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