Miles Atkinson

Miles Atkinson (1741–1811) was an English divine.

Atkinson 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).^[1] 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.

He published several pulpit discourses, and a collection of his ‘Practical Sermons’ was published at London in two volumes, 1812. In Thomas Dunham Whitaker's ‘Loidis and Elmete’ there is a portrait of him, engraved by William Holl from a painting by J. Russell, R.A. He died 6 February 1811.

References

1. ^ Atkinson, Miles in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.

 "Atkinson, Miles". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 

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