Edmund Hodgson Yates
(1831-1894), Novelist and journalistSitter in 12 portraits
Edmund Yates was born in Edinburgh, the only child of the well-known actors Frederick Henry Yates and Elizabeth Yates. He began his career as a clerk in the General Post Office, where he remained for twenty-five years. Yates also worked as a journalist, and wrote many dramatic pieces and some novels, including Running the Gauntletand The Black Sheep. He was perhaps best known as editor of The World society journal. He was also the author of and performed in Invitations at Egyptian Hall, London, which ran in 1862-3. The work was a highly successful comedy in which he and Harold Littledale Power posed as hosts to a variety of singers and actors.
by Unknown artist
watercolour, published 1884
NPG 4546
by Harry Furniss
pen and ink
NPG 6251(69)
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 10 June 1862
NPG Ax58477
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 10 January 1863
NPG Ax62103
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, February 1863
NPG Ax62300
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, February 1863
NPG Ax62301
by John & Charles Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, 1865-1870
NPG Ax7544
by Adolphe Paul Auguste Beau
albumen carte-de-visite, late 1860s-late 1870s
NPG x31034
by John Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, late 1860s-mid 1870s
NPG x13298
by Walery, published by Sampson Low & Co
carbon print, published October 1888
NPG x9181
Edmund Hodgson Yates ('Men of the Day. No. 188.')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 16 November 1878
NPG D43876
by Walery, published by Sampson Low & Co
carbon print, published October 1888
NPG Ax9180
Related People
- Elizabeth Yates (née Brunton) (mother)
- Frederick Henry Yates (father)
- Louise Katherine Yates (née Wilkinson) (wife)
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