Faded mauve textured and embossed cloth with gilt title on the front board.

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John Christopher Atkinson (1814 – 1900), author and antiquary, was born on 9 May 1814 in Goldhanger, and was the son of the Revd John Atkinson, Goldhanger curate, and his wife, Martha, daughter of Richard Causten of Mundon Hall. J.C. Atkinson was educated at Kelvedon in Essex, and was a sizar to St John’s College, Cambridge, on 2 May 1834; he graduated BA in 1838. He was ordained deacon in 1841 as curate of Brockhampton in Herefordshire, and a priest in 1842. He was then rector of Danby in the North Riding of Yorkshire until his death in 1900. The Revd Atkinson was an energetic antiquary of wide interests who, in addition to his historical work, published works on folklore, ornithology, and dialect studies, as well as writing books for children. In 1872 he embarked on a History of Cleveland, which remained unfinished, but was reconstructed from his surviving notes and published in 1982. He also excavated between 80 and 100 barrows in Cleveland. His interest in barrows undoubtedly started in his youth when he live in Essex.

His most famous work, Forty Years in a Moorland Parish (1891) is still a mine of historical information and a classic account of a rural ministry in Victorian England and has been reprinted several times. In 1887 he received the honorary degree from Durham University, and in 1891 he was installed in the “prebend of Holme” in York Minster.