James Atlay
3 July 1817 -
24 December 1894

Family

Atlay was the second son of the Rev. Henry Atlay and Elizabeth Hovell. Atlay married Frances Turner in 1859.

Education

He entered St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1836, and graduated with a B.A. in 1840. He was elected fellow in 1842 and acquired his M.A. in 1843. He served as tutor of St. John's from 1846 to 1859. In 1850 he obtained a B.D. and, in 1859, a D.D.

Church Appointments and Service

Atlay was ordained deacon in 1842 and, in the following year, priest. In 1856, he was appointed as Whitehall preacher, and in 1858-59, as Cambridge select preacher. He succeeded W. F. Hook as vicar of Leeds in 1859, and was appointed residential canon at Ripon in 1861. In 1867, he refused the bishopric of Calcutta, but in the following year accepted the bishopric of Hereford.

Footnote

"Atlay was a high churchman of the old school, but he enjoyed the respect of all parties in the church, and the peace of his diocese was unbroken during the stormiest ecclesiastical controversies." -- DNB 22: 85-6.