Yeates Son Dublin

Stephen Mitchell Yeates, a son of the instrument maker George Mitchell Yeates, was born in 1832. He ran the family business from 1865 to 1901 when he died. The Yeates family business "Instrument Makers and Opticians" first appeared in directories in 1790. The shop moved to 2 Grafton St, Dublin in 1827. The business became Yeates and Son ‘Instrument Makers and Opticians’ in 1865 when Stephen Mitchell Yeats took over the business which his father George Mitchell Yeates had raised him in. The business advertised as ‘Instrument makers to the University’. They claimed to specialise in scientific and educational instruments. The shop at 2 Grafton St was across the street from Trinity College in Dublin. It was the business from Trinity, which sustained the firm for so many years. In fact, some of the scientific instruments made by Yeates and Son still exist in Trinity College. Yeates & Son Dublin made instruments, barometers and clocks in a Victorian style.