William Walter Murray Yeatts (died 4 August 1948) was Census Commissioner for the 1941 census of India, which was the last such exercise prior to the country's 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.
In 1914, following being awarded a degree, he joined the Royal Artillery and served during World War I.
[3] 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.
[2] 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.