Francis Atterbury
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The Right Reverend Francis Atterbury |
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| Bishop of Rochester | |
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| Diocese | Diocese of Rochester |
| In office | 1713–1723 |
| Predecessor | Thomas Sprat |
| Successor | Samuel Bradford |
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| Ordination | 1687 |
| Consecration | 1713 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
6 March 1663 Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire |
| Died | 22 February 1732 (aged 68) Paris, France |
| Buried | Westminster Abbey |
| Denomination | Church of England |
| Education | Westminster School |
| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
Francis Atterbury (6 March 1663 – 22 February 1732) was an English man of letters, politician and bishop. A High Church Tory and Jacobite, he gained patronage under Queen Anne, but was mistrusted by the Hanoverian Whig ministries, and banished for communicating with the Old Pretender. He was a noted wit and a gifted preacher.
He was born at Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, where his father was rector. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he became a tutor. In 1682, he published a translation of Absalom and Achitophel into Latin verse with neither the style nor the versification typical of the Augustan age. In English composition he met greater success; in 1687 he published An Answer to some Considerations, the Spirit of Martin Luther and the Original of the Reformation, a reply to Obadiah Walker, who, when elected master of University College, Oxford, in 1676, had printed in a press set up by him there an attack on the Reformation written by Abraham Woodhead. Atterbury's treatise, though highly praised by Bishop Gilbert Burnet, was more distinguished for the vigour of his rhetoric than the soundness of his arguments, and the Papists accused him of treason, and of having, by implication, called King James "Judas".
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