Yates Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology explained

The Yates Professorship of Classical Art and Archaeology is an endowed chair in classical archaeology at University College London. The chair is named in honour of James Yates (1789-1871), whose fortune was used to endow the chair in 1880.

Yates Professors of Classical Art and Archaeology:

• Charles Thomas Newton (1880-1888)
• Reginald Stuart Poole (1889–1895)
• Ernest Arthur Gardner (1896-1929)
• Bernard Ashmole (1929-1948)
• Martin Robertson (1948-1961)
• Peter Edgar Corbett (1961-1982)
• Nicolas Coldstream (1982-1992)
• John Wilkes (1992-2001)

References

• http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/Newsletter/issue31/