Yates, William, 1792-1845 (Personal Name)

Ibrobhāṣāto vyākr̥tah Dharmagranthah, 1848: (name not given)

NUC Pre-1956 (Yates, William, 1792-1845)

Darlow & Moule: v. 2, pt. 3, p. 1335 (W. Yates)

RLIN, 2/2/95 (hdg.: Yates, William, 1792-1845; usage: William Yates; W. Yates)

American evangelist, October 1827: page 43 (Extract from an address delivered at the meeting of the A. B. Society, May 11, 1827, by the Rev. Mr. Yates, recently from Calcutta)

Dictionary of national biography, 1900: volume 63, p. 304-305 (William Yates, Baptist missionary and orientalist, was born in Loughborough, Leicestershire, on December 15, 1792; he died and was buried at sea on July 3, 1845; he accepted an appointment with the Baptist Missionary Society and arrived in Calcutta on April 16, 1815; he studied Sanskrit and Bengalee under William Carey in Serampore; he helped found the Calcutta Missionary Union; he wrote a simplified Sanskrit grammar, a Sanskrit vocabulary, and manuals of Hindustani and Arabic, along with books on natural science, history, and Christian evidences written in Sanskrit, Hindustani, and Bengalee; also translated the Psalms into Bengalee and wrote memoirs of other missionaries; in 1824 he became secretary of the Calcutta Schoolbook Society at the Baptist Mission Press; between 1829 and 1845 he produced a Sanskrit dictionary, a Hindustani dictionary, a complete translation of the Bible in Bengalee, and a translation of portions of the Bible into Sanskrit, along with a version of the Psalms in the sloka metre)