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'''William Walter Murray Yeatts''' (died 4 August 1948) was [[Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India|Census Commissioner]] for the 1941 census of India, which was the last such exercise prior to the country's [[Independence of India|independence]] from the [[British Raj]]. He was appointed to the same office for the 1951 census, having elected to stay in the country, but died before it took place.

Yeatts was educated in [[Edinburgh]], Scotland. In 1914, following being awarded a degree, he joined the [[Royal Artillery]] and served during [[World War I]]. He then joined the [[Indian Civil Service]] in [[Madras]]. Between 1932 and 1946 he held various positions in the Government of India, culminating in his appointments as Census Commissioner for the 1941 and 1951 censuses of that country.<ref name="hc">{{cite journal |title=In Memoriam |journal=Himalayan Journal |issue=16 |year=1950 |url=https://www.himalayanclub.org/journal/in-memoriam-29/ |publisher=The Himalayan Club}}</ref><ref name="Mitra">{{cite journal |title=Census 1961: New Pathways |first=Asok |last=Mitra |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |volume=29 |issue=51/52 |date=17–24 December 1994 |pages=3207–3221 |jstor=4402155}} {{subscription required}}</ref> He had previously been involved in the 1931 census of [[Madras Presidency]].<ref>{{cite book |first=I. P. |last=Desai |chapter=Crime: Primitive Law and Some Social Anthropologists |page=162 |title=Tribal Communities and Social Change |editor-first=Pariyaram Mathew |editor-last=Chacko |publisher=SAGE |year=2005 |isbn=9780761933311 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MJzjiSSYSaoC&pg=PA162}}</ref>

His oversight of the 1941 census was inauspicious, in part because of the limitations imposed by the onset of [[World War II]] and in part because of significant changes that he was persuaded to make to the methodology.<ref name="Mitra" /> A keen sportsman, although aloof, his term as president of the [[Himalayan Club]] was also affected by the war, with the club's activities being necessarily curtailed.<ref name="hc" />

Yeatts was made a [[Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire]] in 1938 and a [[Companion of the Order of the Star of India]] in 1946. He died in Edinburgh on 4 August 1948.<ref name="hc" />

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