John Thomas Atkinson, Esq., was from Selby, Yorkshire. He was elected a member of the Geological Society of London in 1876.
Lewis A. Atkinson was one of the managers of the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York in the late 1800s.
Wallace G. Atkinson was a landscape architect.
The Atlantic Monthly Press was established in Boston in 1917 as a book publishing imprint of the Atlantic Monthly magazine. In 1925, Little, Brown took over the publishing of all Atlantic Monthly books. This agreement lasted until 1985 when the press became a fully independent publishing house under new ownership. Later, in 1993, the Atlantic Monthly Press merged with Grove Weidenfeld to form Grove Atlantic, Inc. Since the merger, Atlantic Monthly Press has been a hardcover imprint of Grove Atlantic, publishing a variety of genres such as fiction, history, biography, and narrative nonfiction.
Dr. Walter Franklin Atlee was born on October 12, 1828, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
He pursued a career in medicine and completed his undergraduate studies at St. Paul's College of Yale University in 1846. In 1850, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a medical degree. Afterward, he went to France, where he met and married Louise Caussade in 1856. Dr. Atlee worked in Paris and several other cities for six years before returning to Philadelphia, where he practiced medicine for half a century. He was a frequent contributor to Hay's American Journal of the Medical Sciences and translated the book “Bernard and Robin on the Blood” (1854). He also edited Nelatin's Clinical Surgery.
He died on August 18, 1910, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, was born on January 3, 1883, in Putney, England.
He was a British politician. He studied modern history at Oxford (B.A., 1904) and law at Inner Temple (1906). His early experiences as an educator and lawyer led to a long political career, holding many important offices before serving as a Labour Party leader from 1935 until 1955. He also served in the War Cabinet during World War II, became deputy Prime Minister in 1942, and succeeded Winston Churchill as Prime Minister from 1945 until 1955. He was known for his opposition to fascism and, as Prime Minister, helped India achieve independence. After retiring from politics, he wrote several books, including the autobiographical “As It Happened” (1954).
In 1922, he married Violet Helen Millar, Right Honourable Countess (1895–1964). He died on October 8, 1967, in London, England.
