Francis Atterbury, bishop of Rochester

(1663-1732)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Atterbury, Francis, 1662-1732 NRA: Atterbury, Francis (1662-1732) Bishop of Rochester DNB: Atterbury, Francis (1663-1732), bishop of Rochester, politician, and Jacobite conspirator LBT ID: FrAtter1732 VIAF ID: 42631395 LOC ID: n84121348	B/BAP: 1663-03-06 DIED: 1732-02-22
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The high-church bishop of Rochester; he was imprisoned in the Tower in 1720 for his Jacobite associations and spent his later years in France.
REFERENCES TO Francis Atterbury, bishop of Rochester: Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1821 Found 1: ¶ 8 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 1: ¶ 22 Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 22 October 1845 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 6 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. I. 1791-93 Found 1: ¶ 31 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Charles Lamb VI Found 1: ¶ 2 R. Plumer Ward XXIII William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVIII Found 1: ¶ 12 Ch. XXI Found 1: ¶ 12 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 15: 1828-32 Found 1: ¶ 20