Edward Godfrey Cuthbert Frederick Atchley MRCS LRCP (1869–1943) was an English surgeon and

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liturgical scholar associated with the

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. 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

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for

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, which later were destroyed during the Bristol Blitz. He was a member of the Henry Bradshaw Society. He was married to May Florence Heriot Atchley. His papers are in the

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Archives.

Bibliography

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.

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1869 births 1943 deaths English male non-fiction writers Anglican liturgists 20th-century English male writers 20th-century British non-fiction writers English religious writers English surgeons Historians of Bristol {{UK-writer-stub