06/25/2019 – Reggie Yates – Serpentine Gallery Summer Party 2019 Presented by Serpentine Galleries and Chanel – Arrivals – Hyde Park – London, UK – Photo Credit: Landmark / PR Photos

Birth Name: Reginald Yates

Place of Birth: Camden, London, England, U.K.

Date of Birth: 31 May, 1983

Ethnicity:
*81.25% Ghanaian [Fante, Ashanti]
*18.75% English

Reggie Yates is a British writer, director, television personality, actor, and radio DJ. He has directed and written the made-for-tv movie Make Me Famous and the film Pirates (2021).

His parents, Felicia Asante and Reginald “Jojo” Yates, were born in Ghana. His father is of three eighths English ancestry.

Reggie’s paternal grandfather was Harry Philip Yates (the son of George William Yates and Dorothy Lloyd). Harry was born in Sekondi, Ghana. George was English, and was born in Uxbirdge, Middlesex, England, the son of Charles William Yates and Mahala Jane Brooks. Dorothy was born in Dixgrove, Ghana, the daughter of Augustus George Lloyd, who was born in Tongoo, Bengal, India, with English ancestry, and of Sarah, who was Fante.

Reggie’s paternal grandmother was named Diana. She was from Ghana, and was presumably from Sekondi.

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Genealogy of Reggie Yates (focusing on his father’s side) –