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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.

ATTERBURY, LEWIS, elder son of Rev. Lewis Atterbury DD, Prebendary of Lincoln and Rector of Milton Keynes, Bucks., and Elizabeth, dau. of Francis Giffard, North Crawley, Bucks.; b. 2 May 1656; at school under Busby (Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Atterbury, 1864, i, 8); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 Apr 1674; BA 1677; MA 1680 (incorp. Camb. 1681); BCL and DCL 1687; ordained deacon (Oxford) 21 Sep 1679, priest 25 Sep 1680; Chaplain to Lord Mayor of London 1683; Rector of Sywell, Northants., 2 Feb 1684/5 - 1707; Lecturer, St. Mary at Hill, London 1691; Preacher, Highgate Chapel from 16 Jun 1695; Rector of Shepperton, Middlesex, from 30 Sep 1707; Rector of Hornsey, Middlesex, from 3 Mar 1719/20; Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Anne and George I; was refused the post of Archdeacon of Rochester in 1720 by his brother Francis, who considered that such an appointment would have been “the most unseemly indecent thing in the world”; author, several volumes of sermons, and two translations from the French; lic. to m. 24 Dec 1688 Penelope, dau. of John Bedingfeld, Isleworth, Middlesex; d. 20 Oct 1731. DNB.

ATTERBURY, OSBORNE, son of Francis Atterbury (KS 1674, qv); b. 30 Mar 1705; adm. ; in under school list 1716 (paid no fees); KS (Capt) 1718; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1722, matr. 19 Jun 1722, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1722 - 11 Dec 1725 (void, he having been admonished for neglect of duty and exercises 4 Sep 1725); got into financial difficulties, and went into merchant navy; 5th Mate, E. I. Maritime Service 1728; 3rd Mate 1730; ordained deacon (Winchester) 21 Dec 1744; Rector of Oxhill, Warwicks. , from 1746; m. 1st, 10 Aug 1732 (IGI) Sarah, dau. of John Ashley, Isleworth, Middlesex; m. 2nd, ; d. 3 Sep 1752.

ATWOOD, GEORGE, eldest son of Rev. Thomas Atwood, Curate, St. Clement’s Danes, London, subsequently Curate and Lecturer, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, and Isabella, dau. of J[ohn ?] Sells, Inglesham, Wilts. ; bapt. 15 Oct 1745; in school list 1754; KS (aged 13) 1759; Capt. of the School 1764; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1765, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1765, scholar 2 May 1766, matr. Lent 1766; 3rd Wrangler and 1st Smith’s Prizeman 1769; BA 1769; Member’s (second) prize for Middle Bachelors 1770; MA 1772; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1770, Major Fellow 8 Jul 1772, Assistant Tutor 1773-9; FRS 13 June 1776; Copley Medal 1796; one of the patent Searchers of the Customs from 1784; Inspector of Tontine Certificates 21 Jun 1790; a distinguished mathematician to whom Pitt was indebted for services of great value; author, A treatise on the rectilinear motion and rotation of bodies, 1784, and other works; d. unm. Jul 1807. DNB.

ATWOOD, GEORGE, eldest son of Rev. George Atwood, Vicar of Milverton, Somerset, and Sarah, dau. of N. Gresley, and first cousin of George Atwood (qv); b.; in school lists 1764; KS (aged 13) 1765; d. from the results of an accident 5 Sep 1768.

ATWOOD, JAMES ESTCOURT, brother of George Atwood (KS 1759, qv); b. 24 Jul 1758; adm. 30 May 1768; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 17 Jan 1775, but did not matr.; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 May 1775; Ensign, 99th Foot 5 Jun 1780; retd. Aug 1781; ordained deacon 21 Dec 1783, priest 2 Jan 1785 (both Winchester); Rector of Saxlingham with Sharington, Norfolk 6 Feb 1787; Chaplain, Royal Navy 1795; readm. Trinity Coll. Cambridge, 10 Feb 1798; went out to India; Chaplain EICS Madras, appointed 1799 to serve St. Thomas’s Mount and Poonamallee; buried unm. at St. Thomas’s Mount, Fort St. George, Madras 24 Jul 1810.