YATES, Thomas (b.1693), of Chichester, Suss.

Yates came of an old Sussex family. His father was M.P. for Horsham and he himself married the daughter of a former M.P. for Chichester, for which he was returned on the Tory interest in 1734, after contesting it unsuccessfully at a by-election in 1733. According to the Duke of Richmond, ‘whoring lost Yates his first election’.Richmond to Newcastle, 2 Jan. 1741, Add. 32696, f. 16. He voted against the Government, and did not stand again. The date of his death is unknown.