Regency Personalities Series-Miles Atkinson

Regency Personalities Series

In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of the many period notables.

Miles Atkinson

1741–1811

Miles Atkinson

Miles 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). 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.

Atkinson died 6 February 1811.

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