E. G. Cuthbert F. Atchley Explained

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.^[1]

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.^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

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, which later were destroyed during the Bristol Blitz.^[7]

He was a member of the Henry Bradshaw Society.^[8]

He was married to May Florence Heriot Atchley.^[9]

His papers are in the Lambeth Palace Archives.^[10]

Works

• Essays on Ceremonial (1904)
• (editor) Ordo Romanus Primus (1905)
• The People's Prayers: Being Some Considerations on the Use of the Litany in Public Worship (1906)
• 'On the Mediaeval Parish Records of the Church of St. Nicholas, Bristol', Transactions of the St. Paul's Ecclesiological Society 6 (October 1906); 35-67.
• 'Some inventories of the parish church of St. Stephen, Bristol', Transactions of the St Paul's Ecclesiological Society, 6, part 3 (1908), 161-84.
• A History of the Use of Incense in Divine Worship (1909)
• 'Some More Bristol Inventories', Transactions of the St. Paul's Ecclesiological Society, 9 Part 2 (1922), 1-50.

External links

• Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury

Notes and References

1. Book: Calendar of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 1900 . 113.
2. Burridge. Claire. 2020. Incense in medicine: an early medieval perspective. Early Medieval Europe. en. 28. 2. 219–255. 10.1111/emed.12394. 216498402 . 1468-0254.
3. Kenna. Margaret E.. 2005. Why does Incense smell Religious?: Greek Orthodoxy and the Anthropology of Smell. Journal of Mediterranean Studies. 15. 1. 50–69. 2523-9465.
4. Book: Classen. Constance. Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell. Howes. David. Synnott. Anthony. 1994-11-24. Routledge. 978-0-203-42888-7. London. 10.4324/9780203428887.
5. Book: Milner, Matthew. The Senses and the English Reformation. 2016-03-14. Routledge. 978-1-315-55301-6. London. 10.4324/9781315553016.
6. Book: Pennacchio, Marcello. Uses and abuses of plant-derived smoke : its ethnobotany as hallucinogen, perfume, incense, and medicine. 2010. Oxford University Press. Lara Vanessa Jefferson, Kayri Havens-Young. 978-0-19-970847-5. Oxford. 649479587.
7. Book: Records of early English Drama. Bristol, v. 8. 1997. University of Toronto Press. Mark C. Pilkinton. 0-8020-4221-X. Toronto. lv. 39001536.
8. Web site: 2016-04-10. The Henry Bradshaw Society: Its Birth and First Decade, 1890–1900. 2021-11-18. Henry Bradshaw Society. en-GB.
9. Web site: The east window of St. Anta and All Saints, Carbis Bay, Cornwall, UK and the Cornish Revival. live. 2021-11-18. www.cornishstainedglass.org.uk. https://web.archive.org/web/20210523115335/https://www.cornishstainedglass.org.uk/mfcarb/ . 2021-05-23 .
10. Web site: Atchley papers. 2021-10-12. Lambeth Palace Archives.