Francis Atterbury, English bishop and poet (died 1732)

Francis Atterbury

English man of letters, politician and bishop

Francis Atterbury was an English man of letters, politician and bishop. A High Church Tory and Jacobite, he gained patronage under Queen Anne, but was mistrusted by the Hanoverian Whig ministries, and banished for communicating with the Old Pretender in the Atterbury Plot. He…