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{{Short description|Administrator in British India}}
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[[File:Captain C.E. Yate.tiff|thumb|200px|Yate as a captain]]
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'''Sir Charles Edward Yate, 1st Baronet''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CSI|CMG}} (28 August 1849 – 29 February 1940) was an English soldier and administrator in [[British India]] and later a politician in Britain.

==Early life==
Yate was born at [[Holme-on-Spalding-Moor]], Yorkshire, the son of the village's [[vicar]]. He was educated at [[Shrewsbury School]] and [[Rossall School]] and in 1867 purchased an [[Ensign (rank)|Ensigncy]] in the [[49th Foot]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23320 |date=8 November 1867 |page=5932 }}</ref>

== Military career==
In 1871 he was promoted Lieutenant<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23750 |date=27 June 1871 |page=2943 }}</ref> and transferred to the [[Bombay Staff Corps]] of the [[British Indian Army|Indian Army]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23882 |date=2 August 1872 |page=3443 }}</ref> and later to the [[Indian Political Service]], serving as an assistant political superintendent in [[Rajputana]].

He was promoted [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]] in 1879<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24806 |date=27 January 1880 |page=392 }}</ref> and commanded a detachment of the [[29th Bombay Infantry]] during the [[Second Afghan War]], 1879–1880. He then served on [[Frederick Sleigh Roberts|General Roberts's]] staff and served as political officer in charge of [[Kandahar]] from August 1880 until May 1881. From 1884 to 1886 he served with the [[Afghan Boundary Commission]]. In March 1885, he found himself at the epicentre of a global crisis when he was the most senior British officer to witness the [[Panjdeh incident]] which almost led to war between Britain and Russia.<ref>[[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury|Salisbury, Robert]] (2020). ''William Simpson and the Crisis in Central Asia, 1884-5''. {{ISBN|978-1-5272-7047-3}}</ref> For his work with the Commission, he was appointed [[Companion of the Order of the Star of India]] (CSI) in 1887<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25673 |date=15 February 1887 |page=786 }}</ref> and [[Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George]] (CMG) in 1888,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25825 |date=8 June 1888 |page=3185 }}</ref> being promoted Major between these two awards. He was also awarded the Afghan Order of Hurmat.

During this time, Yate was a supporter of the [[Pashtun colonization of northern Afghanistan|Pashtun colonisation of northern Afghanistan]], writing in 1893 that "[i]t is only the non-Afghan tribes such as the [[Uzbeks|Maimanah Uzbegs]] [Uzbeks], the [[Hazaras|Herati Hazarahs]] and Jamshidis, etc. that have any intercourse or communication with the [[Turkmens|Turkomans]] or [[Russians]], and once encircled by Afghans they are safe."<ref name="sciencedirect1">{{cite journal|author=Christian Bleuer |title=State-building, migration and economic development on the frontiers of northern Afghanistan and southern Tajikistan |doi=10.1016/j.euras.2011.10.008 |volume=3 |journal=[[Journal of Eurasian Studies]] |pages=69–79|year=2012 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="afghanistan-analysts1">{{cite web|url=https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/from-slavers-to-warlords-descriptions-of-afghanistans-uzbeks-in-western-writing/ |title=From 'Slavers' to 'Warlords': Descriptions of Afghanistan's Uzbeks in western writing | Afghanistan Analysts Network |publisher=Afghanistan-analysts.org |date=2014-10-17 |access-date=2016-05-01}}</ref>

In 1889 he was appointed British political agent in [[Muscat, Oman|Muscat]], in 1890 consul at Muscat,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26031 |date=11 March 1890 |page=1328 }}</ref> then political agent in [[Baluchistan (Chief Commissioners Province)|Baluchistan]], and in 1893 agent to the [[Viceroy of India|Governor-General]] to [[Greater Khorasan|Khorasan]] and [[Sistan]], based in [[Mashhad]], [[Persia]]. He was promoted [[Lieutenant-Colonel]] in 1893<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26478 |date=23 January 1894 |page=441 }}</ref> and [[consul-general]] in 1896.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26782 |date=2 October 1896 |page=5437 }}</ref> In 1898 he returned to Rajputana and in 1900 was appointed [[Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan]]. He was promoted [[Colonel]] in 1901,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27283 |date=12 February 1901 |page=1064 }}</ref> and retired from the Indian Political Service in 1904 and the Indian Army in 1906.

During the [[First World War]], he returned to service with the British Army, attached to No 1 Ambulance Flotilla, which transported casualties from the Western Front on the [[River Seine]], in 1915.<ref name=www>{{cite book|title=Who Was Who, 1929–1940|date=1947|publisher=[[A & C Black]]|page=1501}}</ref><ref>[http://qaranc.co.uk/hospitalbarges.php] Article on No 1 Field Ambulance, contains group photo including Colonel Yate</ref>

==Political career==
He returned to England in 1904. He stood unsuccessfully as a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] for [[British House of Commons|Parliament]] at [[Pontefract (UK Parliament constituency)|Pontefract]] in [[1906 United Kingdom general election|1906]], and for [[Melton (UK Parliament constituency)|Melton]], Leicestershire in [[January 1910 United Kingdom general election|January 1910]] before being elected to the latter seat as [[British House of Commons|Member of Parliament]] in [[December 1910 United Kingdom general election|December 1910]].<ref name=odnb1>{{cite book|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|volume=60|date=2004|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|page=733}}</ref> He served until 1924.

Yate was created a [[Baronet]], of [[Madeley, Shropshire|Madeley Hall]] in the [[County of Shropshire]], for his political service in the [[1921 New Year Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32178 |date=1 January 1921 |page=2 |supp=y }}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32280 |date=5 April 1921 |page=2664}}</ref>

==Later years==
It was to Madeley he moved after retiring from Parliament, having previously lived at Asfordby House near Melton.<ref name=odnb2>{{cite book|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|volume=60|date=2004|pages=733–734|isbn=0-19-861410-1|last1=Matthew|first1=Henry Colin Gray|last2=Harrison|first2=Brian Howard|last3=Academy|first3=British}}Article by F.H. Browne, revised Katherine Prior.</ref> He became [[Justice of the Peace|J.P.]] for the [[Much Wenlock|Borough of Wenlock]] in 1927.<ref name=kellys>{{cite book|title=Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes, 1940|publisher=Kelly's|page=1998}}</ref>

His only son died in childhood in 1910 (although he also had two daughters), and so the baronetcy became extinct upon his death, at Madeley Hall, aged ninety. Although he lost his speech in older age, he remained mentally alert enough to still take an interest in news from India.<ref name=schron>{{cite news|title=Death of Sir Charles Yate|work=[[Shrewsbury Chronicle]]|date=1 March 1940|page=4}}</ref> He was buried at [[St Michael's Church, Madeley|St Michael's Parish Churchyard]] in Madeley.

==Footnotes==
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==References==
*Biography, ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]''

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