Bishop Francis Atterbury

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Bishop Francis Atterbury was an influential early 18th-century English bishop, Tory politician, and Jacobite sympathizer known for his eloquent oratory and involvement in high-profile political and literary circles.

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Bishop Francis Atterbury canonical 1
Bishop George Smalridge 1

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instanceOf Anglican bishop
Jacobite sympathizer
Tory politician
human
orator
associatedWith Alexander Pope
Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke
Jonathan Swift
burialPlace Westminster Abbey
causeOfDeath gout
countryOfCitizenship England
Kingdom of Great Britain
dateOfBirth 1663-03-06
dateOfDeath 1732-02-22
educatedAt Christ Church, Oxford
Westminster School
employer Church of England
Westminster Abbey
familyName Atterbury
givenName Francis
honorificPrefix The Right Reverend
knownFor Tory high-church politics
eloquent oratory
involvement in the Atterbury Plot
support for the Jacobite cause
languageSpokenWrittenOrSigned English
memberOf House of Lords
Tory Party (British historical)
movement High Church Anglicanism
linked to: Anglo-Catholicism
notableWork Political pamphlets
Sermons and theological writings
occupation bishop
orator
politician
writer
participantIn Atterbury Plot
Jacobite movement
linked to: Jacobite risings

War of the Spanish Succession-era politics
placeOfBirth Buckinghamshire
Milton Keynes
placeOfDeath Kingdom of France
Paris
politicalAlignment Jacobitism
linked to: Jacobite risings

Tory
positionHeld Archdeacon of Totnes
Bishop of Rochester
Chaplain in Ordinary to William III
Dean of Westminster
Prolocutor of the Lower House of Convocation
religion Anglicanism
sexOrGender male

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The Scriblerus Club hasMember Bishop Francis Atterbury
The Scriblerus Club hasMember Bishop George Smalridge
linked to: Bishop Francis Atterbury