John Keate was an English schoolmaster, one of the most famous headmasters in Eton's history. He was born at Wells, Somerset, the son of Prebendary William Keate, D.D. , rector of Laverton, Somerset, and brother of Robert Keate FRCS (1777-1857), Serjeant-Surgeon to King William IV and Queen Victoria. He was educated at Eton and Kings College, Cambridge, where he had a brilliant career as a scholar. Taking holy orders, he became, about 1797, an assistant master at Eton College.

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  • John Keate was an English schoolmaster, one of the most famous headmasters in Eton's history. He was born at Wells, Somerset, the son of Prebendary William Keate, D.D. , rector of Laverton, Somerset, and brother of Robert Keate FRCS (1777-1857), Serjeant-Surgeon to King William IV and Queen Victoria. He was educated at Eton and Kings College, Cambridge, where he had a brilliant career as a scholar. Taking 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 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 canon of Windsor in 1820. He died at Hartley Westpall, Hampshire, of which parish he had been rector since 1824.
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  • John Keate was an English schoolmaster, one of the most famous headmasters in Eton's history. He was born at Wells, Somerset, the son of Prebendary William Keate, D.D. , rector of Laverton, Somerset, and brother of Robert Keate FRCS (1777-1857), Serjeant-Surgeon to King William IV and Queen Victoria. He was educated at Eton and Kings College, Cambridge, where he had a brilliant career as a scholar. Taking holy orders, he became, about 1797, an assistant master at Eton College.
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  • John Keate
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