E. G. Cuthbert F. Atchley
English surgeon and liturgical scholar
Edward Godfrey Cuthbert Frederick Atchley MRCS LRCP (1869–1943) was an English surgeon and Anglican liturgical scholar associated with the Alcuin Club.
He was a member of the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Surgeons.
He wrote numerous books and journal articles. His work on the use of incense in worship has been cited in modern medical and anthropological monographs and journal articles.
He also was a local historian of Bristol. Among other topics, he wrote descriptions of historic churches, such as an examination of parish records for St. Nicholas Church, Bristol; this work has particular value because the records were destroyed subsequently during the Bristol Blitz.
He was a member of the Henry Bradshaw Society.
He was married to May Florence Heriot Atchley.
His papers in seventeen volumes are in the Lambeth Palace Archives.
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