Christopher Atkinson (

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

1652-5, dates of birth and death unknown) was an early

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from Westmorland and one of the

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. Already married, he caused a minor scandal among the Society by attempting to seduce another woman.H. Larry Ingle: ''First among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism'' (Oxford: OUP, 1996, p. 127

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