Atterbury
Atterbury names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Atterbury FRANCIS, an English prelate
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FRANCIS, an English prelate, born March 6, 1662, and educated at Westminster and Oxford. In 1687, he took his degree of M. A., and appeared as a controversialist in a defense of the character of Luther, entitled "Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther," etc. He also assisted his pupil, Charles Boyle, in his famous controversy with Bentley on the "Epistles of Phalaris." Having taken orders, in 1691, he settled in London, became chaplain to William and Mary, preacher of Bridewell, and lecturer of St. Bride's. After the accession of Queen Anne he was made Dean of Carlisle. In 1712, he was made Dean of Christ Church, and, in 1713, Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster. After the death of the Queen, in 1714, he distinguished himself by his opposition to George I.; and, having entered into a correspondence with the Pretender's party, was, in 1722, committed to the Tower. Being banished from the kingdom, he settled in Paris. He died Feb. 15, 1732, and his body was privately interred in Westminster Abbey.
Atterbury WILLIAM WAL- LACE, an American railway official
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM WAL- LACE, an American railway official, born 6. He gradin New Albany, Ind., in Ind., in 1866. He graduated from Yale University in 1886, and he served as an apprentice in shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad, then became road foreman for various divisions of that line. He was rapidly promoted, becoming general manager of the lines east of Pittsburgh and Erie in 1903, serving until 1909. He was made a vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1909. In 1917 he was given general charge of the construction and operation of the United States military railroads in France with a commisson of brigadiergeneral. Largely through his efforts this field of operation became highly organized in France and had much to do with the success of the American Expeditionary Force in its campaigns. He was a member of several engineering societies.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's caught William Wallace Atterbury in 1921 as a vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad fresh from running the American military railways in France; he went on to become the road's president in 1925, holding the post until 1935, the year he died, and presiding over the electrification of the main line between New York and Washington. The account of Francis Atterbury, dead since 1732, needs no correction: he was indeed exiled for Jacobite plotting in 1723 and buried quietly in Westminster Abbey. The one scholarly shift is over the Phalaris quarrel Collier's mentions in passing — Bentley's demonstration that the letters were a late forgery is now regarded as a founding feat of modern textual criticism, and Atterbury's coaching of Charles Boyle as a witty defence of a lost cause.
Written for this edition, 2026.