Richard Yates

Richard Yates

an English clergyman, was born at Bury St. Edmund's in 1769. He was chaplain of Chelsea Hospital from 1798, and rector of Ashen, in Essex, from 1804 until his death Aug. 24, 1834. He published, An Illustration of the Monastic History and Antiquities of the Town and Abbey of St. Edmund's Bury (1805): — The Church in Danger, etc. (1815): — and other Works. See Allibone, Dict. Of Brit and Amer. Authors, s.v.