Joseph St John Yates

A carte-de-visite portrait Joseph St John Yates (1808-1887), seen here wearing the uniform of a Volunteer regiment.

Baptised at St Andrew’s Church in Holborn on 16 November 1808, he was the son of Joseph Yates of Peel Hall, Lancashire.

He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. By 1845 he was also a director of three different railway companies: the Manchester and Sheffield Railway; the Preston and Wyre Extension Railway; and the Lancashire and Yorkshire North-Eastern Railway. By 1851 he was a judge of the County Court in Cheshire.

On 30 March 1842 at Ashton-upon-Mersey he married Emily Augusta Scott, daughter of David Scott of Brotherton, Johnshaven, Aberdeenshire. Their marriage produced nine children.

When the census was taken in 1861, the family were living at Bradwell Road, Bradwell in Cheshire.

Mr Yates died, aged 78, on 2 March 1887 at Wellbank, Sandbach near Chester. He left an estate valued at £63,422.

Photographed by W. Fox of Sandbach in Cheshire.