Miles Atkinson

Miles Atkinson (1741–1811) was an English cleric. He was one of the mid-century evangelicals in Yorkshire.[1]

Miles Atkinson, engraved 1816 by William Holl the Elder from a painting by John Russell.

Life

He was the second son of the Rev. Christopher Atkinson, rector of Thorp Arch, Yorkshire. He was born at Ledsham 28 September 1741, and educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge (B.A. 1763).[2] He became curate of the parish church of Leeds; head-master of the school of Drighlington, near Leeds (1764–70); lecturer of the parish church of Leeds, 1769; vicar of Kippax, near Leeds, 1783 and minister of St. Paul's Church, Leeds, 1793, which he founded at a cost of nearly £10,000.[3] He was responsible for construction of St. Paul's vicarage in 1790.[4]

Atkinson died on 6 February 1811.[3]

Works

Atkinson published several pulpit discourses, and a collection of his Practical Sermons was published at London in two volumes, 1812.[3]

References

1. Judith Jago (1997). Aspects of the Georgian Church: Visitation Studies of the Diocese of York, 1761-1776. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-8386-3692-3.
2. "Atkinson, Miles (ATKN758M)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
3. "Atkinson, Miles" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
4. Historic England. "Vicarage Chambers and attached railings (1375441)". National Heritage List for England. accessed 3 May 2022

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Atkinson, Miles". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.