John Ashton Yates
John Ashton Yates Member of Parliament for County Carlow | |
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In office 1837–1841 Serving with Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Henry Bruen | |
Preceded by | Nicholas Aylward Vigors Henry Bruen |
Succeeded by | Henry Bruen Thomas Bunbury |
Personal details | |
Born | 21 June 1781 |
Died | 1 November 1863 | (aged 82)
Political party | Whig |
Relations | James Yates (brother) Joseph Brooks Yates (brother) John Bostock (half-brother) William James (cousin) |
Parent(s) | John Yates Elizabeth Ashton Bostock |
Education | Manchester Academy |
John Ashton Yates
Early life
He was a son of Elizabeth (
His father was the only child of John Yates, a schoolmaster, and his mother was the youngest daughter of merchant
Yates was educated by a Unitarian minister,
Career
He was apprenticed to the firm run by the William Rathbone family.[1][a] One of his contemporaries there was Thomas Bolton, who also had a political career ahead of him. Yates became a merchant and broker in Liverpool. The firm of Yates and Cox, iron merchants and nail manufacturers,[4] was a partnership with his brothers, Richard Vaughan Yates, who established Prince's Park, Liverpool, and Pemberton Heywood Yates.[1][2][5] In 1830, he was one of the initial proprietors of the Wigan Branch Railway, the Manchester and Leeds Railway and in 1836 the Blackwall Railway.[b][6][7]
Yates stood unsuccessfully for the
Interests
In 1820, Yates was elected a
Probably a member of
Personal life
Yates was married to Frances-Mary Lovett, a daughter of Francis Mary (née Gervais) Lovett and the Rev. Verney Lovett, Rector of Lismore (a brother of Sir Jonathan Lovett, 1st Baronet).[9] Together, they lived at Dingle Head, Toxteth Park, and were the parents of five daughters:[10]
- Frances Mary Yates (d. 1895), who married Sir Richard Musgrave, 4th Baronet of Tourin, a son of Sir Richard Musgrave, Bt, in 1845.[10]
- Mary Ellen Yates (1822–1897), who was the second wife of Robert Needham Philips, MP for Bury, whose first wife had been a cousin to Mary, being the daughter of Yates' brother, Joseph.[1][11][12]
- Ellen-Mellissina Yates, who died young.[10]
- Isabella Yates, who died unmarried.[10]
- Sophia Yates (1827–1900), who married to Louis Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, a cousin of
Yates died at Philips' house in Manchester on 1 November 1863, having suffered from a declining memory for the previous two years.[8]
Descendants
Through his daughter Frances, he was a grandfather of Maria Musgrave, who married Hon.
References
Notes
- ^ Another contemporary apprentice at the Rathbone firm with whom Yates remained friends was Thomas Bolton, who later became mayor of Liverpool.[2]
- ^ "Local and Personal Act, 11 George IV & 1 William IV, c. lvi:An Act for making and maintaining a Railway from the Borough of Wigan to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in the Borough of Newton in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and Collateral Branches to communicate therewith" (PDF). UK Parliament. 29 May 1830. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
Citations
- ^ a b c d e f g Bebbington, D. W. (April 2009). "Unitarian Members of Parliament in the Nineteenth Century — A Catalogue" (PDF). Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society. 24 (3): 54.
- ^ a b c d "John Ashton Yates: Profile & Legacies Summary". Legacies of British Slave-ownership. UCL Department of History 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
- ^ McLachlan, Herbert (1950). "John Dalton and Manchester, 1793-1844". Essays and Addresses. Manchester University Press. p. 64.
- ^ "RECORDS OF YATES, COX AND COMPANY, IRON MERCHANTS AND NAIL MANUFACTURER, OF LIVERPOOL". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. The National Archives. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
- ^ a b "Obituary". Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. 12 (575): 33. 27 November 1863.
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- ProQuest 473406616.
- ^ a b "Report". Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool. XVIII: 3–4. 1864.
- ^ Burke, Sir John Bernard (1838). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, by J. and J.B. Burke. p. 326. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
- ^ a b c d e Burke, Bernard (1868). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Harrison. p. 1718. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
- ^ Mair, Robert Henry (5 January 1867). Debrett's illustrated House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881. Dean & Son. p. 187.
- ^ Oxford Archaeology North (October 2008). Philips Park House, Prestwich, Greater Manchester: Archaeological Evaluation (PDF). p. 10.
- The British Museum. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
- ^ "Ashtown, Baron (I, 1800)". Cracroft's Peerage. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 20 October 2020.