Education
Yates was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk, and then from 1948 to 1954 at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School at King's College London. As a student he was a water polo and rugby union player and was elected President of the Guy's, Kings and St Thomas' Rugby Football Club.
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