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.