Rowland Atcherley was a doctor during a time in British medical history known as ‘the period of medical reform’. The boundaries between the different branches of medical practice were blurring, as those branches moved towards becoming a unified profession. Within the profession there was greater organisation, and sharing of knowledge, along with improvement in education and training. It was also… Read more »
< Back to Part 1. WAKEFIELD. On February 24th Mrs. Atcherley [] very kindly entertained the members to tea, preceded by a Suffrage debate. Miss Fielden championed the cause, and Miss I. O. Ford [pictured right] was kind enough to appear as an Anti-Suffragist—a real one who would debate could not be found. […] The annual meeting was held in the Wakefield Assembly Rooms on March… Read more »
< Back to Eleanor Frances Atcherley and the Boer War. Opening an exhibition of cookery at Normanton Central Schools last night, Mrs. Atcherley, wife of the Chief Constable of Wakefield, after giving a humorous description of her household experiences in South Africa when with her husband at the Boer War, went on to say that young English constables had generally… Read more »
< Back to Part 1. War, according to an old adage, consists of long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. In the first part of this story, we saw something of the terror that Henry Mount Langton Atcherley [] would have experienced when he took part in the Battle of Te Ranga. But what about the periods before… Read more »
[In] the matter of the estate of Elizabeth Hester Isabella Atcherley [], Widow, deceased […] late of No. 15, Cranbrook Road, Chiswick, in the county of Middlesex, widow of Lieutenant William Shairp Langton Atcherley [], who died on or about the 30th day of October, 1899 […] Note—The said Mrs. Atcherley had an only child, Henry Mount Atcherley [], who was… Read more »
< Back to Part 1. Grand Canary was a fair way from the British Isles, but Robert Atcherley and others had the drive and determination to bring sporting activities from the green and pleasant land of their birth, to their new island home. This I discovered during the course of my eagle-eyed Atcherley research, when by a stroke of good… Read more »