John Atkinson, Baron Atkinson (December 13, 1844 – March 13, 1932) was an Irish politician and British judge. He was born at Drogheda, County Louth, the eldest son of Edward Atkinson, a physician, of Glenwilliam Castle, County Limerick and Skea House, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, and his wife Rosetta. He died at 39 Hyde Park Gate, London. He was said to have had a kindly but unconventional personality.
Atkinson was educated at the Belfast Acade...
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John Atkinson, Baron Atkinson (December 13, 1844 – March 13, 1932) was an Irish politician and British judge. He was born at Drogheda, County Louth, the eldest son of Edward Atkinson, a physician, of Glenwilliam Castle, County Limerick and Skea House, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, and his wife Rosetta. He died at 39 Hyde Park Gate, London. He was said to have had a kindly but unconventional personality.
Atkinson was educated at the Belfast Academy and later at Queen's College Galway, which he attended from 1858 to 1865. He won Junior Scholarships in the Science Division of the Faculty of Arts, 1858-9, 1859-60 and 1860-1. He was awarded the B.A. degree with first-class honours in 1861, and pursued a varied postgraduate career – from initial study of the sciences (with Senior Scholarships in Mathematics, 1861-2, and Natural Philosophy, 1862-3) he moved into Law, gaining a first-class Diploma in Elementary Law in 1864. A further Senior Scholarship, this time in Law, followed, and he...
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