Robert Atherton may refer to:
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Robert Atherton (poet)
Robert Atherton (1861–1930) was an England, English poet. During his lifetime he was referred to as The Ploughman Poet.
Early life
Atherton was the son of Robert Atherton and Ellen Hesketh. Born in Kirkby, Lancashire in 1861; at the time a sma ...
(1861–1930), English poet
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Robert Atherton (civil servant)
Robert Atherton Ceylon Civil Service, CCS, Justice of the peace#Sri Lanka, JP (1801 – 1855) was a 19th-century British colonial official in British Ceylon (present day Sri Lanka) for more than 25 years. After a distinguished career in the ...
, British colonial official
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Bobby Atherton
Robert Atherton (29 July 1876 – 19 October 1917) was a Welsh footballer who played as a half back and forward for Heart of Midlothian, Hibernian, Middlesbrough and Chelsea in the late 1890s and early 1900s. He was capped by Wales at in ...
(1876–1917), Welsh footballer
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Robert C. Atherton (1908–1986), American author, publisher, and businessman
See also
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Robert Atherton Edwin (1839–1911), New Zealand meteorologist
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Robert Rawstorne (Robert Atherton Rawstorne, 1824–1902), archdeacon of Blackburn, 1885–1899
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Robert Vernon Atherton Gwillym
Robert Vernon Atherton Gwillym (28 August 1741 – 9 July 1783), known as Robert Vernon Atherton after 1779, was a British landowner and politician who represented Newton in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1774 to 1780.
Gwillym was ...
(1741–1783), British country landowner and politician
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