Roger Yates (1905 - 2 September 1975) was a pipe organ builder based initially in Nottingham and then Bodmin who flourished between 1928 and 1972.
He was born in 1905, the son of James Yates and his wife Helen. He was educated at Tonbridge School.
His career as an organ builder started in 1922 with an apprenticeship with Henry Willis & Sons in London,
In 1928 he Roger Yates purchased the business of Charles Francis Lloyd in Nottingham, and he remained in Nottingham until 1937.
He then transferred to Bodmin, Cornwall. After service in the Royal Navy during World War II he moved to the Old Rectory, Michaelstowe, Cornwall and his business flourished until illness in 1972.
1926 St. Andrew's Church, Nottingham addition of a Tuba1930 Front Street Methodist Church, Nottingham1930 Congregational Church, Nottingham1930 Methodist Church Wysall, Nottinghamshire1930 Masonic Hall, 25 Goldsmith Street, Nottingham1930 Addison Street Congregational Church, Nottingham (rebuild)1932 Dolmetsch Foundation, Haslemere, Surrey1934 St Mary the Virgin, Ilkeston, Derbyshire1934 Park Hill Congregational Church, Derby Road, Nottingham1936/37 Radcliffe-on-Trent, A.E. Allen Esq., 'Meadowcroft' (private residence)1936 St. Peter's Church, Ruddington, Nottinghamshire1937 St Peter's Church, East Bridgford, Nottinghamshire1937 St Leonard, Glapthorn, Northamptonshire1937 All Saints' Church, Oakham, Rutland1939 St Mary, Bozeat, Northamptonshire1939 Good Shepherd, Romford, Essex1948 Church of St. John the Evangelist, Carrington1948 St. Catharine's Church, Nottingham now at St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Shelford1950 St. Paul's Church, Daybrook, Nottingham1952 St Catharine, Gloucester1953 St Andrew, Kegworth, Leicestershire1958 St James the Great, Kilkhampton, Cornwall1962 All Saints, Ulcombe, Kent1962 St Michael, Newquay, Cornwall1963-64 St John the Evangelist, Taunton1965-66 St Catherine, Gloucester1969 Dartington College of Arts, Devon1969-1972 Church of St Andrew, Stogursey, Somerset