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JOHN KEATE (1773—1852)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 708 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN KEATE (1773—1852)  ,
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English schoolmaster, was born at Wells,
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Somersetshire, in 1773, the son of Prebendary William Keate . He was educated at
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Eton and King's College, Cam-
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bridge, where he had a brilliant career as a scholar; taking
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holy orders, he became, about 1797, an assistant master at Eton College . In 1809 he was elected headmaster . The discipline of the school was then in a most unsatisfactory condition, and Dr Keate (who took the degree of D.D. in 1810) took stern
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measures to improve it . His partiality for the birch became a by-word, but he succeeded in restoring order and strengthening the weakened authority of the masters . Beneath an outwardly rough manner the little man concealed a really kind heart, and when he retired in 1834, the boys, who admired his courage, presented him with a handsome testimonial . A couple of years before he had publicly flogged eighty boys on one day . Keate was made a
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canon of Windsor in 1820 . He died on the 5th of March 1852 at Hartley Westpall, Hampshire, of which parish he had been rector since 1824 . See Maxwell Lyte,
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History of Eton College (3rd ed., 1899) ; Collins, Etoniana; Harwood, Alumni Etonienses;
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Annual
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Register (1852); Gentleman's
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Magazine (1852) . the
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American
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Civil War he lived in Paris, but early in 1861 he hastened home to join the Federal army . At first as a brigade
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commander and later as a divisional commander of
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infantry in the Army of the
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Potomac, he infused into his men his own cavalry spirit of dash and bravery .

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Williamsburg, Seven Pines, and Second Bull Run, he displayed his usual romantic courage, but at
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Chantilly (
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Sept . 1, 1862), after repulsing an attack of the enemy, he rode out in the dark too far to the front, and mistaking the Confederates for his own men was shot dead . His
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body was sent to the Federal lines with a message from General Lee, and was buried in Trinity Churchyard, New York . His commission as major-general of
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volunteers was dated
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July 4, 1862, but he never received it . See J . W. de Peyster,
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Personal and Military History of Philip Kearny (New York, 1869) .

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