ATKINSON, RICHARD; b. ; adm. ; KS 16 Nov 1610 (Chapter Lease Book 1605-10, f. 326).
ATKINSON, ROBERT; b.; adm. 7 Feb 1786.
Atkinson, Thomas; Under Master of Westminster School 1574; Perhaps St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, matr.sizar Easter 1577 ; BA 1580/1 ; MA 1585 (incorp.Oxford) 11 Jul 1586) ; ordained ; Minor Canon of St.Paul’s from 16 Feb 1598/9, Sub-Dean from 3 Dec 1607 ; Rector of St.Gregory by St.Paul’s, London ; d. 20 May 1616.
ATKYNS, EDWARD, brother of Sir Robert Atkyns (qv); bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 6 Jun 1654 (IGI); adm. 11 Apr 1665; a boarder; at school 1667 (Busby’s Account Book); Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 15 Apr 1670, aged 15; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 27 Aug 1669, called to bar 2 Nov 1676; lic. to m. 8 Feb 1676/7 Annabella (or Agnes), dau. of Sir Richard Atkins, Bart.; buried 28 Dec 1682 [or 1683 ?].
ATKYNS, SIR ROBERT, eldest son of Right Hon. Sir Robert Atkyns PC KB FRS, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and his first wife Mary, dau. of Sir George Clerk, Kt.; bapt. 26 Aug 1647; adm. Nov 1657; a boarder; left 1662 (Busby’s Account Book); St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, matr. 14 Mar 1662/3, aged 15; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 23 Feb 1660/1, called to bar 14 Apr 1668; knighted 5 Sep 1663; Deputy Receiver-General, Law Duties 1671-2, Receiver-General 1672-3, Comptroller 1673-9; of Pinbury Park, Gloucs.; MP Cirencester Feb 1678/9 - Jan 1680/1, Gloucestershire Mar 1684/5 - July 1687; JP Gloucestershire 1673- Mar 1688, Oct 1688 onwards; DL Gloucestershire 1683 - Feb 1688; author, The Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire, 1712; lic. to m. 5 Jul 1669 Louise, dau. of Sir George De Carteret, Bart., Hawns, Beds.; d. 29 Nov 1711 (M. I. Sapperton, Gloucs. ). DNB.
Attenborough, Gerald Ralph, son of Ralph Ernest Attenborough, solicitor, of Bromley, Kent, and Dorothy Frances, d. of John Williams of Bromley; b. 28 Apr. 1911; adm. Sept. 1926 (R); left Dec. 1927 with serious illness; d. 30 June 1942.
ATTERBURY, CHARLES LEWIS, son of Francis Atterbury (adm. 1749/50, qv); b. 31 Mar 1778; adm. ; Min. Can. 1791; KS 1792; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1796, matr. 26 May 1796, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1796; BA 1800; MA 1803; ordained (deacon or priest ?) 24 Aug 1803 (Cloyne); Perpetual Curate, St. Thomas, Oxford 1809; Vicar of St. Mary Magdalene, Oxford, from 5 Jun 1815; killed by the overturning of the Sovereign coach, near Leamington, 26 Jul 1823.
ATTERBURY, FRANCIS, brother of Lewis Atterbury (qv); b. 6 Mar 1662/3; adm.; KS 1674; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1680, matr. 17 Dec 1680, aged 17, Westminster Student 18 Dec 1680-94 (void, perhaps on marriage), Tutor 1687-90; BA 1684; MA 1687; BD and DD 5 May 1701; replied to Obadiah Walker’s attack upon the Reformation 1687; assisted his pupil Hon. Charles Boyle in his defence of the genuineness of the Epistles of Phalaris against Bentley; ordained; Lecturer, St. Bride’s, London 1701; Chaplain in Ordinary to William III and Queen Mary, subsequently to Queen Anne; warmly opposed Erastianism and protested against the suppression of Convocation; Archdeacon of Totnes 11 Jun 1701-13; Prebendary of Exeter 6 May 1704; Dean of Carlisle 2 Oct 1704; Prolocutor of Lower House of Convocation 1710; Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, 28 Sep 1711-3; installed Dean of Westminster 16 Jun 1713 and consecrated Bishop of Rochester 15 Jul 1713; although he took part officially in the coronation of George I, he refused to sign the declaration of confidence in the government after the rebellion of 1715, and subsequently was in direct communication with the Jacobites; arrested and imprisoned in the Tower 24 Aug 1722, for his alleged connection with an attempt to restore the Stuarts; a bill of pains and penalties was passed through the House of Commons, and carried in the House of Lords by 83 votes to 43; deprived of all his ecclesiastical preferments 1 Jun 1723, and banished from the kingdom; visited in the Tower by some of the senior King’s Scholars before his departure; resided first at Brussels and afterwards in France as general adviser to the Old Pretender; a man of marked attainments, but cursed with an imperious and aggressive temper, and possessed of “a rare talent for fomenting discord”; his old friend George Smalridge (qv), who succeeded him both at Carlisle and at Christ Church, used to say that “Atterbury comes first and sets everything on fire, and I follow with a bucket of water”; regarded as one of the leading preachers of his day, and in Addison’s opinion was “one of the greatest geniuses of his age”; much to the annoyance of Old Westminsters, Atterbury removed the Election in 1718 from the School to the Jerusalem Chamber, and put down the Election Dinner (HMC Portland MSS, v, 561, vii, 275); owing to his insistence the new Dormitory was built on its present site, the first stone being laid 24 Apr 1722; Busby Trustee from 27 Feb 1705/6; m. c. 1695 Catherine Osborne; d. in exile in Paris 22 Feb 1731/2 and buried privately in the south aisle of the nave of Westminster Abbey 12 May 1732. DNB.
ATTERBURY, FRANCIS, son of Osborne Atterbury (qv); b. 15 Jun 1734; adm. Jan 1749/50 (Hutton's); KS 1750; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1755, matr. 28 May 1755, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1756 - 1 Oct 1770 (void, on expiry year of grace as P Cloyne), Tutor 1764-9, Junior Censor 1763, Senior Censor 1764-8; BA 1759; MA 1763; DCL 1768; Proctor 1767; rebuked before the Chapter of Christ Church by William Markham (qv) for a speech delivered by him as Senior Censor in Christ Church Hall 12 Dec 1768 (Thompson, Christ Church, 162-3); ordained; Prebendary of Cloyne 3 Oct 1769 - Dec 1770, Precentor of Cloyne from 1 Dec 1770; various incumbencies in Co. Cork 1769-77; Vicar of Clonmel and Templerobin, Co. Cork, from 1777; m. 1st, 21 Jan 1771 Mary, sister of Robert Berkeley (qv); m. 2nd, 23 Jan 1800 Anne Arabella Ingram, widow; d. 22 Jan 1822.