John Yates (minister)

John Yates (1755–1826) was an English Unitarian minister, for over 30 years at the Paradise Street Chapel in Liverpool. He was an abolitionist, a supporter of radical causes, and a member of the Roscoe circle of progressives.^[1]^[2]

Life

He was born in Bolton, the only child of John Yates, a schoolmaster. He was educated at Bolton Grammar School, and from 1772 at Warrington Academy.^[1]

In 1777 Yates became the minister of the Kaye Street Chapel, Liverpool.^[1]

With his friend William Shepherd, who tutored his children, Yates was active in Liverpool's radical politics. He preached against the Atlantic slave trade in 1788, offending some of his congregation.^[1] He took part in the private meetings of the "Friends of Freedom" from 1789, a group including William Roscoe and William Rathbone IV.^[3] Yates and his congregation moved to the Paradise Street Chapel in 1791.^[1]

Yates was active on the committee of The Lyceum.^[4] He was one of the supporters of Manchester College.^[5] He died on 10 November 1826 at Dingle Head.^[1]

Family

In 1777 Yates married Elizabeth Bostock née Ashton, widow of the physician John Bostock the elder (1740–1774), a student of William Cullen.^[1]^[6] She was a daughter of the merchant John Ashton (1711–1759), and mother of John Bostock the younger. John and Elizabeth had a family of five sons and three daughters.^[1]

The sons were:

Joseph Brooks Yates (1780–1855), merchant and plantation owner. John Yates had a covert interest in France, Fletcher & Co., in which Joseph Brooks Yates became a partner in 1801.^[7]
John Ashton Yates (1781–1863), politician.^[8]
Richard Vaughan Yates (1785–1856), donor of Prince's Park to the inhabitants of Liverpool.^[8]
James Yates (minister) (1789–1871), Unitarian minister.^[8]
Pemberton Heywood Yates (1791–1822).^[8]

The daughters were Elizabeth, Anna Maria (1787–1866) and Jane Ellen (1794–1877).^[9]^[10] Anna and Jane were commemorated by a tablet in Toxteth Unitarian Chapel.^[11]

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Webb, R. K. "Yates, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63410. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Watts, Ruth (2014). Gender, Power and the Unitarians in England, 1760-1860. Routledge. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-317-88862-8.
^ Dellarosa, Franca (2015). Talking Revolution: Edward Rushton's Rebellious Poetics, 1782-1814. Oxford University Press. pp. 44–45. ISBN 978-1-78138-748-1.
^ Brooke, Richard (1853). Liverpool as it was During the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century. 1775 to 1800. J. Mawdsley and son. p. 92.
^ Chapple, John (1997). Elizabeth Gaskell: The Early Years. Manchester University Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-7190-2550-1.
^ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). "Bostock, John (1740-1774)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 5. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ "France, Fletcher & Co., Legacies of British Slave-ownership". www.ucl.ac.uk.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). "Yates, Joseph Brooks" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ Burke, Sir Bernard (1863). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Harrison. p. 1718.
^ Jevons, William Stanley (1973). Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons: Volume 2: Correspondence, 1850-1862. Springer. p. 110 note 3. ISBN 978-1-349-00714-1.
^ Valentine David Davis, Richard Mather (1884). Some Account of the Ancient Chapel of Toxteth Park, Liverpool, from the Year 1618 to 1883, and ... Henry Young. p. 53.

[ODNB-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Webb, R. K. "Yates, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63410. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[2] Watts, Ruth (2014). Gender, Power and the Unitarians in England, 1760-1860. Routledge. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-317-88862-8.

[3] Dellarosa, Franca (2015). Talking Revolution: Edward Rushton's Rebellious Poetics, 1782-1814. Oxford University Press. pp. 44–45. ISBN 978-1-78138-748-1.

[4] Brooke, Richard (1853). Liverpool as it was During the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century. 1775 to 1800. J. Mawdsley and son. p. 92.

[5] Chapple, John (1997). Elizabeth Gaskell: The Early Years. Manchester University Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-7190-2550-1.

[6] Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). "Bostock, John (1740-1774)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 5. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[7] "France, Fletcher & Co., Legacies of British Slave-ownership". www.ucl.ac.uk.

[YJB-8] Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). "Yates, Joseph Brooks" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[9] Burke, Sir Bernard (1863). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Harrison. p. 1718.

[10] Jevons, William Stanley (1973). Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons: Volume 2: Correspondence, 1850-1862. Springer. p. 110 note 3. ISBN 978-1-349-00714-1.

[11] Valentine David Davis, Richard Mather (1884). Some Account of the Ancient Chapel of Toxteth Park, Liverpool, from the Year 1618 to 1883, and ... Henry Young. p. 53.

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