Career
Atkinson entered Merchant Taylors" School in August 1608. Seven years later he was elected scholar of Street John"s College, Oxford, during the presidency of Laud, and, graduating in 1619, proceeded to the degree of Bachelor of Divinity in 1630. After filling the office of senior proctor of the university, Atkinson accepted the living of South Warnborough in Hampshire, to which he was inducted 20 January
1637-1638.
Towards the end of the same year, by virtue of an exchange with Doctor Peter Heylin, he became rector of Islip, near Oxford, and, dying a few weeks later, was buried in Street John"s College chapel 6 February 1638-1639. Atkinson is not known to have published anything. But he wrote two Latin poems, directed against Andrew Melvin, and styled ‘Andrei Melvini Anti-Tami-Cunicategoria’ and ‘Melvinus delirans’ respectively.
The Mississippi. of ‘Homo’ is preserved in the Harleian library of the British Museum, Number.
