Biography of james henry atkinson
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James Henry Atkinson (1849 - 1942)
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Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
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Husband of Leah (Beales) Atkinson — married 1929 [location unknown]
Father of Charles James Atkinson, Mabel Atkinson and William Swales Atkinson
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Biography
James Atkinson was born in England.
"A CATCHY STORY"
James Henry Atkinson (1849–1942)[1] was a British ironmonger from Leeds, Yorkshire who is best known for his 1899 patent of the Little Nipper mousetrap. He is cited by some as the inventor of the classic spring-loaded mousetrap, but this basic style of mousetrap was patented a few years earlier in the United States by William Chauncey Hooker in 1894.
Atkinson patented various inventions incl
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James Atkinson (surgeon)
James Atkinson (1759–1839) was an English surgeon and bibliographer.
Life
[edit]Atkinson was the son of a medical practitioner and friend of Laurence Sterne in York.[1] He studied under Henry Cline and Thomas Denman. A Roman Catholic, he went into medical practice in York in 1782. He spent some time in continental travel.[2]
For many years Atkinson was the chief medical man in York, and remained in practice to within a few years of his death, which took place at the age of 80 at Lendal, on 14 March 1839. He was buried at St Helen, Stonegate[1]
Sterne portrait
[edit]Laurence Sterne, vicar at Sutton-on-the-Forest some miles north of York, moved into the city in 1739, returning in 1742.[3] The Atkinson family connection with Sterne led to the preservation of what is considered likely to be the earliest Sterne portrait, via an engraving by Charles John Smith.[4][5]
An oil caricature
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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Atkinson, James (1759-1839)
ATKINSON, JAMES (1759–1839), surgeon and bibliographer, son of a medical practitioner and friend of Sterne in York, is chiefly known bygd his ‘Medical Bibliography,’ of which the dedication fryst vatten thus worded: ‘To all idle medical students in Great Britain sit—,’ with a picture of that part of the human spinal column known as the ‘sacrum.’ The author's reason for attempting the work was: ‘Wanting better amusement, and through mere accident, inom stumbled upon the dry, dusty, tedious, accursed, hateful bibliography (see p. 365).’ The subject undoubtedly deserves all these epithets, but Atkinson managed to write a book to which none of them can be truly applied. It is full of anecdote, humour, and out-of-the-way resultat. The scientific value fryst vatten, however, small, the bibliography consisting of a simple list of editions arranged alphabetically beneath names of authors. The notes are merely excuses for the compil