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.