ATKINSON, JOHN (18:35-97). An American preacher. He was born at Deerfield, N. Y., and served in the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church till his death at Haverstraw, N. Y. He wrote the familiar hymn, "We Shall Meet Beyond the River," and the historical works, Memorials of Methodism (1860) ; The Centennial History of American Methodism. (1884) ; The Beginnings of the Wesleyan Morement in Ameriea, and the Establishment Therein of Methodism (1896). ATKINSON, Joux CIIRISTOPIIER An English clergyman and antiquary. He was born at Goldhanger, in Essex, where his father was curate. In 183S he graduated B.A. from Saint John's College, Cambridge, and three years later was ordained curate of Brockhampton in Here fordshire. In 1847 he became vicar of Hanby, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, where he re sided till his death. In 1887 he received from Durham University the degree of D.C.L.. and in
1891 he became a prebendary in York Cathedral. A delightful antiquary somewhat after the type of Gilbert White (q.v.), he is best known for his Forty Years in a Moorland Parish (1891). Among his other popular books are: The Walks, Talks, Travels, and Exploits of Two Schoolboys (1859) ; Plait-Hours and Half-Holidays (1SSO) ; British Birds' Eggs and Nests (1861): and The Last of the Giant-Killers (1891). Among his learned works are: "A Glossary of the Dialect of the Hundred of Lonsdale," in Transactions of the Philological Society (1867) ; A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect (1865I with Additions (1876) ; The History of Cleveland (incomplete, 1872-77). He also edited for the Surtees Society Cartalari Abbathice de Whiteby (1879); and Cartn lari-um Abbathicr RI, :•ile (1889).