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/