Background
Born in Dublin on 19 January 1845, he was second son of Henry Yeo of Ceanchor, Howth, Justice of the Peace, clerk of the rules, court of exchequer, by his wife Jane, daughter of Captain Ferns.
Born in Dublin on 19 January 1845, he was second son of Henry Yeo of Ceanchor, Howth, Justice of the Peace, clerk of the rules, court of exchequer, by his wife Jane, daughter of Captain Ferns.
Yeo was educated at the royal school, Dungannon, and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated moderator in natural science in 1866, proceeding Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery
In 1867. In 1868 he gained the gold medal of the Dublin Pathological Society for an essay on renal disease. After studying abroad for three years, a year each in Paris, Berlin, and Vienna, he proceeded Doctor of Medicine at Dublin in 1871, and became next year Member of the Royal College of Physicians and Member Royal College of Surgeons Ireland. Foreign two years Yeo taught physiology in the Carmichael school of medicine in Dublin.
He was appointed professor of physiology in King"s College London, in 1875, and in 1877 assistant surgeon to King"s College Hospital, becoming Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.England in 1878.
He delivered for the College of Surgeons the Arris and Gale lectures on anatomy and physiology in 1880-1882. With Hugo Kronecker, Yeo inaugurated the triennial international physiological congresses.
The first met at Basle in 1889, and was organised by Yeo with Michael Foster. Yeo was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1889.
He resigned his chair of physiology at King"s College in 1890 and received the title of emeritus professor
He then retired to Totnes in Devon, and later to Fowey, where he devoted himself to yachting, fishing, and gardening. He died at Austin"s Close, Harbertonford, Devon, on 1 May 1909. Yeo married (1) in 1873 Charlotte, only daughter of Isaac Kitchin of Rockferry, Cheshire (she died without issue in 1884).
(2) in 1886 Augusta Frances, second daughter of Edward Hunt of Thomastown, company
Kilkenny, by whom he had one son.
Royal Society.