Henry Yellowlees

{{Infobox person

| honorific_prefix = Sir

| name = Henry Yellowlees

| honorific_suffix = MRCS FRCS KCB FRCP FFCM

| image =

| alt = Black and white photograph of Dr Henry Yellowlees, a white man with widow’s peak and dark slicked-back hair, wearing a suit and tie.

| caption = Dr Henry Yellowlees at the Mental After Care Association Annual General Meeting, 1956

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1919|4|16|df=y}}

| birth_place = Edinburgh, Scotland

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2006|03|22|1919|4|16|df=y}}

| death_place = Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England

| education = Stowe School, University College, Oxford

| occupation = Medical Officer; Chief Medical Officer 1973-1983

| employer = Middlesex Hospital; Ministry of Health

| organization = Medical Research Council; General Medical Council; British Medical Association; British Nutrition Foundation

}}

{{Short description|British physician}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

Sir Henry Yellowlees {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCB}} (16 April 1919 – 22 March 2006){{Cite web |last=Tait |first=Mr |date=2013-09-12 |title=Sir Henry Yellowlees FRCP Edin |url=https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/obituary/sir-henry-yellowlees-frcp-edin |access-date=2022-12-30 |website=www.rcpe.ac.uk |language=en}} was a British physician who was Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of the United Kingdom from 1973 to 1984.{{Cite ODNB |title=Yellowlees, Sir Henry (1919–2006), medical officer |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-97680 |access-date=2022-12-30 |year=2004 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/97680}}{{Cite web |title=Sir Henry Yellowlees - National Portrait Gallery |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp136266/sir-henry-yellowlees |access-date=2022-12-30 |website=www.npg.org.uk |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Yellowlees, Sir Henry (1919 - 2006) |url=https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002fSD_ASSET:372437/one?qu=%22rcs:+E000250%22&rt=false%7C%7C%7CIDENTIFIER%7C%7C%7CResource+Identifier |access-date=2022-12-30 |website=livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk}}

He was the son of Henry Yellowlees MD (1888–1971) and grandson of David Yellowlees (1835–1921) both of whom were eminent psychiatrists in Scotland.{{cite web | url=https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/henry-yellowlees | title=Henry Yellowlees | RCP Museum }}

He was educated at Stowe School and University College, Oxford. He served in the RAF as a pilot in the Second World War.{{cite web | url=https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/henry-yellowlees | title=Henry Yellowlees | RCP Museum }}

After a sequence of appointments to regional hospital boards he was seconded to the Ministry of Health in 1963, rising to become George Godber's deputy in 1967 and Chief Medical Officer in 1973.{{cite news|title=Sir Henry Yellowlees|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/apr/12/guardianobituaries.health|accessdate=27 November 2013|newspaper=The Guardian|date=12 April 2006}}

He died on 22 March 2006, survived by his second wife, Mary, and three children he had with his first wife, Sally.