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_.