Background
He was the second son of the Review Christopher Atkinson, rector of Thorp Architecture, Yorkshire.
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Miles Atkinson
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Career
He was one of the mid-century evangelicals in Yorkshire. He was born at Ledsham 28 September 1741, and educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge (Bachelor 1763). He became curate of the parish church of Leeds.
Head-master of the school of Drighlington, near Leeds (1764-1770).
Lecturer of the parish church of Leeds, 1769. Vicar of Kippax, near Leeds, 1783 and minister of Saint Paul"s Church, Leeds, 1793, which he founded at a cost of nearly £10,000.
Atkinson died 6 February 1811.
