Yates, James (1789-1871)

Invitation to J S Bowerbank, 1 Nov [1849]; letter to Abbé [Moigne?], written in France, concerning a meeting in the Salle de l'Empereur in the Palais d'Industrie, Champs Elysées and the proposal to form an international metrological society, 20 Sep [no year].

[1849?]

2 letters

Purchased from Stevens, London, July 1930 (acc.56545); Provenance details not recorded (acc.67430).

Unitarian and antiquary. Founded the Scottish Unitarian Association in 1813 with Thomas Southwood Smith. Published Vindication of Unitarianism in 1815. Studied classical philology in Berlin in in 1827. Elected Fellow of the Geological Society 1819, Linnean Society 1822, and Royal Society 1831. In 1832 became minister of Carter Lane Chapel, Doctors' Commons, London. He issued in 1833 proposals for an organisation of the Unitarian congregations of Great Britain on the Presbyterian model: the plan was not successful. Soon after 1836 he left the ministry and, being unordained, became a lay minister. He contributed to Sir William Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities , 1842, and published numerous papers on archaeological subjects.

See MS.7433/1, 29; MS.7478/13; MS.7555/1&4.