Yates, EDMUND

Yates, EDMUND, journalist and novelist, was born at Edinburgh, 3d July 1831, the son of the actor Frederick Henry Yates (1797-1842), who from 1825 was manager of the Adelphi Theatre. He was educated at Highgate and Düsseldorf, was from 1847 till 1872 in the Post-office, latterly as chief of the missing-letter department, and died 19th May 1894. He published upwards of a score of novels and other works (Broken to Harness, Running the Gauntlet, Black Sheep, &c.), was editor of Temple Bar, Tinsley's, and other periodicals, and in 1874 founded, with Grenville Murray (q.v.), a very successful 'society' weekly, The World, of which next year he became sole proprietor, and which, for a libel on Lord Lonsdale, involved him in 1884 in two months' imprisonment. See his lively Recollections (2 vols. 1884), with anecdotes of Dickens, Thackeray, Albert Smith, &c.