Mally Yates (née Shaw, 1949) family moved to Derbyshire, where Mally was to live for the rest of her life. Over the next 40 years, she led a busy and fulfilled life, supporting Tim in his ministry as well as developing Mally was born in Liverpool in her own interests. They both travelled widely, including to 1931 and attended Aigburth academic conferences which Tim was attending. They visited Vale Grammar School in the city New Haven for extended periods when he was researching before taking up a place to study at Yale Divinity School and made many friends there. Mally Mathematics at Somerville College. continued to use her knowledge of maths, tutoring children She looked back fondly on her who needed extra support during the 1980s. More recently time at Oxford and kept in touch she enjoyed doing sudokus! with many of her contemporaries throughout her life. Mally also did a lot of voluntary work. She volunteered as a After leaving Oxford, Mally went MALLY YATES Samaritan for many years. She served on national Church of back to her former school to teach England clergy selection panels as well as being a trustee of the Maths and R.E. A committed Christian, she then took up Children’s Society for a period of time. In addition, she trained a post a travelling secretary for the Scripture Union which as a lay reader and then went on to be involved in the training involved a lot of travel visiting schools in the north of England. of other readers in Derbyshire. She had many friendships and was very good at keeping in touch with people. She became In 1966 she then accepted a post at St John’s College, adept at using zoom in the pandemic, which lessened the Durham, as their first woman tutor. It was there that Mally isolation of living alone. met her husband Tim, to whom she was happily married until his sudden death in 2016. They had two children, Catherine Mally would often say at the end of her life that she felt very and Mark, who both survive her, together with her five grateful to have had such a long and fulfilled life. She was very grandchildren. clear that the service held at the end of her life was to be one In 1979 Tim, who was an ordained priest in the Church of of thanksgiving – which it was. England, decided to move back into parish life and so the Catherine Stanton (née Yates), Mally’s daughter