Biography:Henry Atkinson

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Henry Atkinson


     
 Given name:     Henry
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 Family name:     Atkinson
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 Year of birth:     1670
 Year of death:     1759
 Profile:     Musician
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Biographical notes


Henry Atkinson [1] (1670-1759) was a Northumbrian musician, probably a fiddler, was the son of a yeoman from Gateshead, County Durham, who became a successful coal trader in Newcastle, Northumberland, at the beginning of the Industrial Age. He used some of his wealth to help fund a charity school in 1709. He was eulogized in the Newcastle Courant after his death as a man "whose Character in publick and private life has left his Memory and Honour to Trade and exemplary to all."