Background
Born in Florida, he was the son of David Yeats, a physician who was the Secretary of the East Florida Colony in Florida.
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Grant Yeats
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He was incorporated Bachelor of Medicine at Dublin in 1807, and graduated Doctor of Medicine
Career
He matriculated from Hertford College, Oxford, on 21 January 1790, graduating Bachelor of Arts on 15 October 1793, Master of Arts on 25 May 1796, Bachelor of Medicine on 4 May 1797. from Trinity College, Oxford, on 7 June 1814. He spent two winter sessions in Edinburgh and one in London, and then practised at Bedford, where he assisted in the establishment of the Bedford general infirmary, and at a later period of the lunatic asylum near the town. He was nominated physician to each of these institutions.
On the Duke of Bedford"s nomination to the lord-lieutenancy of Ireland, Yeats accompanied him to Dublin in March 1806 as his private physician.
On the duke"s return to England in 1807 he resumed his position at Bedford, where he later served as mayor. About 1814 he moved to London, where he was admitted a candidate of the Royal College of Physicians on 30 September 1814, and a fellow on 30 September 1815.
He was Gulstonian lecturer in 1817, censor in 1818, and Croonian lecturer around 1826 (speaking against the stethoscope). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 1 July 1819, and died at Tunbridge Wells on 14 November 1836.
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While at Dublin he was instrumental in establishing the Dublin Humane Society, and was made a member of Trinity College, Dublin.
