ATHERTON, SIR WILLIAM (_only son of Rev. Wm. Atherton of Battle Bridge Middlesex, Wesleyan minister 1775–1850_). _b._ Glasgow October 1806; special pleader 1832–39; barrister I.T. 22 Nov. 1839, bencher 1851; went northern circuit of which he became leader; Q.C. July 1851; Q.C. for duchy of Lancaster 1851–60; M.P. for Durham 9 July 1852 to death; judge advocate of the fleet and counsel to the Admiralty 1854 to 16 Dec. 1859; solicitor general 16 Dec. 1859 and attorney general 4 July 1861 to Sep. 1863; knighted by the Queen at St. James’s palace 23 Feb. 1860. (_m._ 15 April, 1843 Agnes Mary younger dau. of Thomas James Hall, chief magistrate at Bow st. London, she _d._ 26 March 1866). _d._ 13 Westbourne terrace, Hyde Park 22 Jany. 1864.
ATHLUMNEY, WILLIAM MEREDYTH SOMERVILLE, 1 Baron. _b._ 1802; ed. at Harrow; paid attaché at Berlin 1829–32; M.P. for Drogheda 1837–52 and for Canterbury 1854–65; under sec. of state for Home department 5 July 1846 to 22 July 1847; chief sec. for Ireland 22 July 1847 to Feb. 1852; P.C. 22 July 1847; raised to peerage of Ireland as Baron Athlumney 14 Dec. 1863 and to peerage of United Kingdom as Baron Meredyth 3 May 1866. _d._ Dover 7 Dec. 1873.
ATHOLE, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK JOHN MURRAY, 6 Duke of. _b._ Great Cumberland place, London 20 Sep. 1814; took part in the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839; grand master mason of Scotland 1843–63; succeeded his uncle as 6 Duke of Athole 14 Sep. 1846; K.T. 28 Oct. 1853; pres. of Highland and Agricultural Societies 1858–62; kept Otter hounds at Dunkeld. _d._ Blair castle, Perthshire 16 Jany. 1864.
ATKINS, EDWARD. _b._ 1818; played at T.R. Birmingham 1851–61; made his début in London at Drury Lane 28 Oct. 1861; played Jem Dalton in Tom Taylor’s drama _The Ticket of leave man_ at Olympic theatre 27 May 1863 to 16 Sep. 1864 406 times, and more than 600 times afterwards in different theatres; played Autolycus in _A winter’s tale_ at Drury Lane 28 Sep. 1878. _d._ 5 Carlton road west, Peckham 8 April 1883. _Tallis’s Drawing room table book part_ 16, _portrait_.
ATKINS, EDWIN. Manager with his brother John Atkins of Zoological gardens situated between Farnworth st. and Butler st. Liverpool which were established in 1832 by Thomas Atkins, keeper of a travelling menagerie, the gardens were eventually turned into a limited liability company, and in 1863 the place was dismantled and the land sold; started for interior of Africa 1852. _d._ on a small island of the White river, a branch of the Nile Jany. 1854.
ATKINS, EDWIN MARTIN (_eld. son of Atkins Edwin Martin-Atkins of Walcot in Bath_). _b._ 1808; ed. at Rugby; matric. Magd. coll. Ox. 26 July 1825 aged 17, B.A. 1829; sheriff of Berkshire 1844; F.S.A. 10 Dec. 1857; the original of the Squire depicted by Tom Hughes in _The scouring of the White Horse_ 1859. _d._ Weston super Mare 5 May 1859.
ATKINSON, CHARLES CALEB (_eld. son of Caleb Atkinson of Hillingdon, Middlesex_), _b._ 1793; barrister M.T. 6 June 1834; sec. of University college London 1835 to July 1867; sub editor of _The Sphinx_; owner of _The Athenæum_ for short time. (_m._ 1831 Harriet dau. of George Swimley of Henley on Thames). _d._ Alexandra road, Kilburn, London 11 Jany. 1869.
ATKINSON, FENTON ROBINSON. _b._ Leeds 12 Nov. 1784; admitted attorney May 1810; practised at Manchester; a leading bankruptcy lawyer; sold his library Dec. 1817 and his other library of 13,000 volumes May 1858 a ten days sale; member of Chetham, Camden, Hakluyt, Shakspere and Percy Societies and Warton club; contributed to _Bibliographiana_, originally published in the _Manchester Exchange Herald_ 1815–16 and afterwards as a small vol. of which only 24 copies were issued 1817. _d._ The Grove, Withington, Lancs. 9 June 1859. _Law Times xxxiii_, 212, 257 (1859).
ATKINSON, SIR HENRY ESCH (_3 son of Henry Wm. Atkinson 1753–1834 provost of Company of moneyers_). _b._ 1792; entered navy 2 Feb. 1807; commander 30 April 1827; employed in the Coast Guard 1835–38; retired captain 1 April 1856; knighted by lord lieutenant of Ireland 1836; superintendent of convicts in Van Diemen’s Land 1846. (_m._ 1819 Sarah dau. of John Randall of the Isle of Wight, she _d._ 1873). _d._ Hobart Town 1857.
ATKINSON, JAMES. _b._ county of Durham 9 March 1780; assistant assay master at Calcutta mint 1813–28; superintendent of the government Gazette 1817–28; surgeon to 55 Bengal N.I. 1833; superintending surgeon to the army of the Indus 1838–41; a member of Bengal medical board 1845–47; author of _The Shâh Nâmah translated and abridged_ 1832, which won gold medal of Oriental translation fund; _The expedition into Afghanistan_ 1842; _Sketches in Afghanistan_ 1842. _d._ 18 Dorset sq. London 7 Aug. 1852. _Journal of Royal Asiatic Society xv, vi-ix_, (1855).
ATKINSON, JAMES. Perfumer in Old Bond st. London; lived at Village park, Ealing. _d._ 27 June 1853 aged 71.
ATKINSON, JAMES CHARLES. _b._ Middlesex 1 May 1783; served in merchant service 1796–1803; joined R.N. as a volunteer 1803; master 29 Jany. 1814; staff commander on h.p. 11 June 1863. _d._ Southampton 27 Oct. 1882 aged 99 years and six months.
ATKINSON, SIR JASPER (_son of Henry Wm. Atkinson 1753–1834, provost of Company of moneyers_). _b._ Dulwich 1790; employed in the Mint 1804–51; provost of Company of moneyers 1 April 1848 to July 1851 when it was dissolved; knighted by patent 28 Nov. 1842 for services rendered to Ottoman, Russian and French governments. (_m._ 12 May 1819 Louisa Jane Grace only dau. of Wm. Gyll of Wyrardisbury house, Bucks, she was _b._ 21 July 1800 and _m._ (2) 1863 Percy Honey of Exchequer Office, Lincolns Inn). _d._ North Frith Haddow near Tonbridge Wells 6 Oct. 1856.
ATKINSON, RICHARD. _b._ Dublin 1796; a poplin manufacturer there 1820 to death; alderman of Dublin 1857 to death; mayor 1856 and 1861; gave a grand ball to Prince of Wales 11 Sep. 1861; a great philanthropist. _d._ 1867. _I.L.N. xxxviii_, 83 (1861) _portrait_.
ATKINSON, SOLOMON. _b._ Cumberland; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; senior wrangler and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1821; B.A. 1821; barrister L.I. 21 May 1827; author of _County court extension act_, 1850; _Law and practice of county courts_ 1853. _d._ Mornington crescent, Hampstead road 12 Feb. 1865.
ATKINSON, THOMAS WITLAM. _b._ Cawthorne, Yorkshire 6 March 1799; employed in rebuilding St. Mary’s church Barnsley 1819 where he carved some very fine work; architect in London 1827–42 when he went to Hamburg; engaged in reconstruction of St. Nicholas church Hamburg 1845; went to Russia 1846; granted by Emperor of Russia rare privilege of a blank pass throughout his Asiatic dominions; travelled in Siberia and Mongolia; F.R.G.S. 1858, F.G.S. 1859; author of _Explorations in Oriental and West Siberia_ 1857; _Travels in the regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor_ 1860; (_m._ 1847 Lucy authoress of _Recollections of Tartar Steppes_ 1863, she was granted a civil list pension of £100 18 June 1863). _d._ Lower Walmer, Kent 13 Aug. 1861.
ATKINSON, WILLIAM GREENE. _b._ Darlington 1810; barrister M.T. 19 Nov. 1841; librarian of the Great seal patent office, London Jany. 1854 to death; prepared manuscript of catalogue of the library which was printed in 2 vols. 4º. 1882–83; edited the Commissioners of patents journal Jany. 1854 to death, _d._ 59 Rowan road, Hammersmith 18 Sep. 1881.
ATKINSON, WILLIAM STEPHEN (_eld. son of Rev. T. D. Atkinson Rector of Rugeley, Staffs._) director of public instruction for Bengal. _d._ Rome 15 Jany. 1876 aged 55.
ATTHILL, REV. WILLIAM LOMBE. _b._ 11 July 1807; scholar of Caius coll. Cam. 1825; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1851; sub-dean, canon and commissary of collegiate church of Middleham, Yorkshire 1839–51; P.C. of Horsham Norfolk 1851–63; V. of Horsford, Norfolk 1851–63; married 4 times; author of _The way of Catechising_ 1840; _History and antiquities of the collegiate church at Middleham_ 1847 and of articles in Burke’s _Historic Lands of England_ 1849. _d._ Brandiston hall, Alderford, Norfolk 11 Dec. 1884.
ATTREE, WILLIAM WAKEFORD. _b._ 1805; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister M.T. 7 June 1833; assistant tithe comr.; recorder of Hastings and of Seaford about 1842 to death; author of _Report of Braintree church rate case_ 1853. _d._ Queen’s Park, Brighton 28 Jany. 1862.
ATTWOOD, BENJAMIN (_son of Matthias Attwood of Hales Owen, founder of bank of Attwoods in London and Birmingham_). a manufacturer at Birmingham; came into a large fortune from his nephew Matthias Attwood; gave with greatest secrecy for many years sums of £1000 each to all manner of charities to amount of £375,000. _d._ Pengelly house, Cheshunt 22 Nov. 1874. _I.L.N. lxvi_ 57 (1875) _portrait_; _Graphic xi_ 67 (1875) _portrait_.