Nicholas Postgate was a Catholic priest who served the faithful in North Yorkshire during the 17th century. Born in Egton around 1596, he studied at Douay College in France before returning to England to minister to scattered communities across the moors. During a period of renewed anti-Catholic tension fueled by the Popish Plot, the elderly priest was arrested while performing a baptism. He was executed in York in 1679, becoming one of the final victims of religious persecution in England.