He was the son of Sir John Yate, 2nd Baronet (d. c. 1658) and the former Mary Pakington.

[3] The Manor of Buckland was held by the De La Poles, Dukes of Suffolk before it passed to the Yate family in 1545.

[4][5] Yate married Frances Gage, a daughter of Sir Thomas Gage, 2nd Baronet of Firle Place and the former Mary Chamberlain (the daughter and co-heiress of John Chamberlain).

After the death of her father, her mother married Sir Henry Goring, 2nd Baronet.

Together, they were the parents of:[1] Yate died c. 1680 and was succeeded in the baronetcy and his estates by his son, John upon whose death the title became extinct in 1690.