Francis Atterbury

Francis Atterbury

Francis Atterbury (born March 6, 1663 in Milton Keynes , † February 22, 1732 in Paris ) was the English bishop of Rochester .

Born in Buckinghamshire , he attended school in Westminster and then Christ Church College , Oxford . In 1691 he became preacher to St. Bride in London and royal chaplain . He belonged to the high ecclesiastical direction and fought the liberal bishops and the Whig party . Therefore, after the fall of the Whigs in 1712, he was appointed Dean of Christ Church and Bishop of Rochester. In 1720 he instigated a Jacobite conspiracy that was discovered in 1722. Atterbury was deposed and exiled, was in the service of the pretender James Francis Edward Stuart (son of King James II ) until 1728 and died in Paris on February 22, 1732.

literature

• Folkestone Williams (Ed.): Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester. With notices of his distinguished contemporaries. 2 volumes. Allen, London, 1869.
• GV Bennett: The Tory Crisis in Church and State. 1688-1730. The Career of Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 1975, ISBN 0-19-822444-3 .
• Rex A. Barrell: Francis Atterbury (1662-1732), Bishop of Rochester, and His French Correspondents (= Studies in British History 19). Edwin Mellen Press Ltd, Lewiston et al. 1990, ISBN 0-88946-451-0 .
• Eveline Cruickshanks, Howard Erskine-Hill: The Atterbury Plot (= Studies in Modern History ). Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke et al. 2004, ISBN 0-333-58668-9 .

Web links

• Biography at www.westminster-abbey.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Thomas Sprat	Bishop of Rochester 1713–1723	Samuel Bradford