About William Holt Yates
Lived 1802 – 1874 (aged 71–72). William Holt Yates was a physician.
William Holt Yates (1802–26 January 1874) was a medical doctor. He travelled to the Middle East and was elected a resident member of the Royal Asiatic Society on 21 June 1834 .
Education He attended the University of Edinburgh and St John's College, Cambridge, (M.D. 1826) .
Family His parents were William Yates, of Wickersley Hall, Yorkshire and Elizabeth Titcomb. On 2 August 1837 he married Amelia Mary Maxwell, daughter of William Maxwell and Sarah Low at St George's, Hanover Square Astronomer William Pearson, who officiated at the wedding .
WillIam Holt Yates was a cousin of Jonathan Holt Titcomb who was the first Bishop of Rangoon and father of artist William Holt Yates Titcomb.
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