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Died on 26 June, 1869
Searching for "V. W. Bate"
Master of the Lodge of Antiquity No. 11, Grand Lodge of New York, in 1860 and 1861. Reference here.
From Freemasonry in the Holy Land by Rob Morris, p. 59:
To commemorate the Masonic spirit manifested in this ancient Masonic and ecclesiastical city of Smyrna marked on the map "E," nine honored names of British craftsmen whose names will survive them are located here, viz., Hyde Clark, Stephen Barton Wilson, W. J. Hughan, D. Murray Lyon, Charles Purton Cooper, Matthew Cooke, Charles Warren, E. T. Rogers, and V. W. Bate.
By June 26, 1869, he had passed away. Reference here.