Roger Yates (1905 - 2 September 1975Musical Opinion, Volume 99, p87) was a pipe organ builder based initially in Nottingham and then Bodmin who flourished between 1928 and 1972.
Background
He was born in 1905, the son of James Yates and his wife Helen. He was educated at Tonbridge School.
His career as an organ builder started in 1922 with an apprenticeship with Henry Willis & Sons and Lewis & Company Ltd in London,
In 1928 he Roger Yates purchased the business of Charles Francis Lloyd in Nottingham, and he remained in Nottingham until 1937.
He then transferred to Bodmin, Cornwall. After service in the Royal Navy during World War II he moved to the Old Rectory, Michaelstowe, Cornwall and his business flourished until illness in 1972.
Noted instruments 1926 St Andrew's Church, Nottingham addition of a Tuba 1930 Front Street Methodist Church, Nottingham 1930 Congregational Church, Nottingham 1930 Methodist Church Wysall, Nottinghamshire 1930 Masonic Hall, 25 Goldsmith Street, Nottingham 1930 Addison Street Congregational Church, Nottingham (rebuild) 1932 Dolmetsch Foundation, Haslemere, Surrey 1934 St Mary the Virgin, Ilkeston, Derbyshire 1934 Park Hill Congregational Church, Derby Road, Nottingham 1936/37 Radcliffe-on-Trent, A.E. Allen Esq., 'Meadowcroft' (private residence) 1936 St Peter's Church, Ruddington, Nottinghamshire 1937 St Peter's Church, East Bridgford, Nottinghamshire 1937 St Leonard, Glapthorn, Northamptonshire 1937 All Saints' Church, Oakham, Rutland 1939 St Mary, Bozeat, Northamptonshire 1939 Good Shepherd, Romford, Essex 1948 Church of St John the Evangelist, Carrington 1948 St Catharine's Church, Nottingham now at St Peter and St Paul's Church, Shelford 1950 St Paul's Church, Daybrook, Nottingham 1952 St Catharine, Gloucester 1953 St Andrew, Kegworth, Leicestershire 1958 St James the Great, Kilkhampton, Cornwall 1962 All Saints, Ulcombe, Kent 1962 St Michael, Newquay, Cornwall 1963-64 St John the Evangelist, Taunton 1965-66 St Catherine, Gloucester 1969 Dartington College of Arts, Devon 1969-1972 Church of St Andrew, Stogursey, Somerset
References
2. Current ongoing MPhil. research, Newcastle University, Alastair Johnston.