Victor Yates

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'''Victor Francis Yates''' (19 April 1900 – 19 January 1969<ref name="Hansard">{{hansard-contribs | mr-victor-yates | Victor Yates }}</ref>) was a British pacifist Labour Party politician.<ref name="Hansard" />

He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham, Ladywood from the July 1945 general election, when he beat the Unionist incumbent, until his death in January 1969 at the age of 68.<ref name="Hansard" /> He had had a heart attack in the House of Commons in the preceding October.<ref name="GH">{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19690120&id=hX9AAAAAIBAJ&pg=1004,3114715&hl=en |title=Death of Victor Yates, M.P. |date=20 January 1969 |work=Glasgow Herald |page=5 |access-date=27 August 2016}}</ref> In the subsequent by-election the seat was gained by the Liberal candidate Wallace Lawler.

At Yates's cremation, his pallbearers were Roy Hattersley, Denis Howell, Roy Jenkins and Brian Walden.<ref>{{Cite book| last=Hattersley |first=Roy |author-link=Roy Hattersley |title=In Search Of England |publisher=Hachette |year=2010 |ISBN=9780748118168 |url=https://archive.org/details/insearchofenglan0000hatt}}</ref>

The National Portrait Gallery holds a number of photographic portraits of him, including several by Walter Stoneman.<ref name="NPG">{{cite web|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp81323|title=Victor Francis Yates (1900-1969), Politician; MP for Birmingham|publisher=National Portrait Gallery, London|access-date=27 August 2016}}</ref>

The Victor Yates Care Home in Ladywood is named in his honour.

== References == {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{hansard-contribs | mr-victor-yates | Victor Yates }} * [http://www.oldladywood.co.uk/victoryates.htm remeniscences of Yates] from ''Old Ladywood'' (includes pictures)

{{s-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Birmingham, Ladywood | years = 1945 – 1969 | before = Geoffrey Lloyd | after = Wallace Lawler }} {{s-end}}

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