William Holt Yates (1802âÂÂ26 January 1874) was a physician. He travelled to the Middle East and was elected a resident member of the Royal Asiatic Society on 21 June 1834. He was the author of The Modern History and Condition of Egypt, its Climate, Diseases, and Capabilities, 2 volumes, 1843.
He attended the University of Edinburgh and St John's College, Cambridge, (M.D. 1826).
His parents were William Yates, of Wickersley Hall, Yorkshire and Elizabeth Titcomb. In 1837 he married Amelia Mary Maxwell, daughter of William Maxwell and Sarah Low. Sarah Low's sister, Frances Low, was the wife of astronomer William Pearson.