Frederick Henry Yates
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Frederick Henry Yates (4 February 1797 – 21 June 1842) was an English actor and theatre manager.
Life
Yates was born in London, the youngest son of Thomas Yates, a tobacco manufacturer, of Thames Street and Russell Square. Frederick was educated at a preparatory school at Winchmore Hill and at Charterhouse School (at the former meeting John Reeve, whom he would later work with) before joining the commissariat department. In that job he was with Wellington in the Peninsular War and possibly at the battle of Waterloo.[citation needed]
When peace came, he met
James Rodwell, who was the lessee of the
Yates managed the Adelphi until his retirement from management in 1842 (seven years after his patron Mathews' death in 1835). He also co-managed the Caledonian Theatre, later renamed the Adelphi, on Leith Walk in Edinburgh (with William Henry Murray, 1830–31), the Colosseum in
Family
Yates married the actress
Notes
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 49. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Theodore Foster (1836). Foster's Cabinet Miscellany: A Series of Publications on Various Subjects from the Latest and Most Approved Writers. Theodore Foster. p. 40.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ "Theatre, Stamford". Stamford Mercury. 8 June 1827. p. 3.
- ^ "Theatre, Lincoln". Stamford Mercury. 22 June 1827. p. 1 and 3.
- ^ "A female elephant". Stamford Mercury. 4 December 1829. p. 2.
- ^ "The female elephant". Stamford Mercury. 11 December 1829. p. 4.
- ^ "On Friday". Stamford Mercury. 3 September 1830. p. 2.
- ^ "Lynn". Stamford Mercury. 17 May 1833. p. 3.
- ^ "The Colloseum". Stamford Mercury. 12 June 1835. p. 4.
- ^ "Mr Frederick Yates". Stamford Mercury. 24 June 1842. p. 2.
- ^ "Married". Stamford Mercury. 12 December 1823. p. 2.
External links
- "Yates, Frederick Henry". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30190. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.). The first edition of this text is available at Wikisource: . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- "Yates, Elizabeth". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30189. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.). The first edition of this text is available at Wikisource: . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.