Elizabeth Atcherley [] lived a remarkable life. She married a Prussian Count and became Countess Elizabeth Krockow von Wickerode. She also developed intimate friendships with some very notable people – a German baroness who travelled Europe promoting kindergartens, a leading German novelist, a brilliant Polish pianist, the mistress (and later wife) of a famous composer of operas, and the great composer himself, Richard… Read more »
Updated for World Book Day, 3 March 2016 We hear that Yesterday Roger Acherley, Esq; Author of the Book, call’d, The Britannic Constitution, presented the same to his Majesty ; which his Majesty received very graciously. – Daily Journal, 15 Feb 1727. Since Roger Atcherley (or Acherley as his surname was usually written) presented a copy of The Britannic Constitution… Read more »
I had not been researching the Atcherley family for very long before I started finding references to a company named Atcherley & Dawson, a firm of tea dealers based in Australia during the late 1800s and early 1900s. However, the identity of the Atcherley involved in this company was a mystery, and remained so for quite some time. Finally, a… Read more »
“Richard Atcherley, Esq. [] … [died] without issue, 27 Feb. 1834, whereupon the male line of the Atcherley family failed…” – John Burke and John Bernard Burke (1847), A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. The Marton estate in the Shropshire parish of Middle had been home to Richard’s branch of the Atcherley family… Read more »
When Captain James Atcherley [] of the Royal Marines set off from the Conqueror to take possession of a stricken enemy vessel during the Battle of Trafalgar, he could not have anticipated what awaited him aboard that ship. Amidst harrowing scenes and death and destruction, he came face to face with the commander-in-chief of the combined Franco-Spanish fleet, Admiral Pierre Villeneuve…. Read more »