Irene May Bates was born in Manchester, England, in 1921 to Edward and Lily Wootton. On June 14, 1941, she married William Bates. In 1955, William and Irene Bates joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1967 they emigrated to Salt Lake City, Utah. Bates received her B.A. in sociology, summa cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1988, she received an M.A. in history from UCLA, and in 1991, she earned a Ph.D. in History, also from UCLA. Bates published many books and articles about the history of the LDS Church. She passed away on August 10, 2015 at the age of 95.
The Irene M. Bates photograph collection contains images of Irene Bates and her family bewteen 1940 and 1991 and a photograph of when David O. McKay at Ground Breaking for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Temple in England in 1958.
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Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Donated by Irene M. Bates in 2001.
Processed by Claire A. Kempa in 2021.
See also the Irene M . Bates papers (ACCN 1875) in the Manuscripts Division of Special Collections.
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