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<p>2 Fix ref. error; see <a href="/w/index.php?title=Category:CS1_errors:_deprecated_parameters&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:CS1 errors: deprecated parameters (page does not exist)">deprecated parameters</a> - also some copy editing, <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/BP:AWB/T" class="extiw" title="wp:AWB/T">typo(s) fixed</a>: on November 1854 → in November 1854</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{other people||William Atkinson (disambiguation)}}<br /> {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;William Stephen Atkinson&#039;&#039;&#039; (September 1820 – 15 January 1876, [[Rome]]) was a British [[lepidopterist]] who worked for much of his life in [[India]].&lt;ref&gt;[[Arthur Grote|Grote, Arthur]] (1879). Introductory note in the descriptions of his collection by Hewitson and Moore.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> William was the eldest son of Rev. Thomas D. Atkinson, of Chesterton, in Suffolk. He became interested in nature at [[Cannock Chase]], when his father became Vicar of [[Rugeley]]. He started collecting British Lepidoptera. He went to [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], from 1839 and passed out as 26th [[Wrangler (University of Cambridge)|wrangler]] in 1843.&lt;ref&gt;{{acad|id=ATKN838WS|name=Atkinson, William Stephen}}&lt;/ref&gt; He then studied to become a civil engineer, but was offered the position of principal at [[La Martiniere Calcutta|Martiniere College]] and went to [[Calcutta]] (now Kolkata) in November 1854. He was married to Miss Montford daughter of the Vicar of East Winch.<br /> <br /> In Calcutta he joined [[The Asiatic Society]] and later became its secretary. He became interested in the Lepidoptera of Bengal and started breeding moths and communicated with [[Henry Tibbats Stainton]]. In 1857 he became a member of the Entomological Society. In 1860 he became Director of Public Instruction in Bengal and made visits to [[Darjeeling]] where he made extensive collections. He made trips to [[Sikkim]] with Dr [[Thomas Anderson (botanist)|Thomas Anderson]] of the [[Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden|Calcutta Botanic Garden]]. In 1865 he became a trustee of the New Indian Museum. He was in correspondence with [[Frederic Moore]].<br /> <br /> Atkinson lived for many years in [[Calcutta]] collecting and painting pictures of specimens. His collection was purchased on his death by [[William Chapman Hewitson]] and deposited with the [[Natural History Museum, London|Natural History Museum]] in London. [[Frederic Moore]] and Hewitson described and published many of the new species collected by him.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite book |last1=Hewitson |first1=William C. |authorlink1=William Chapman Hewitson |last2=Moore |first2=Frederic |authorlink2=Frederic Moore |name-list-style=amp |date=1879 |url=https://archive.org/details/descriptionsofne00hewi/page/n5 |title=Descriptions of New Indian Lepidopterous Insects: From the Collection of the Late Mr. W.S. Atkinson, M.A., F.L.S., &amp;c. |publisher=The Asiatic Society of Bengal |oclc=9625544 |via=Internet Archive}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> * {{Internet Archive author |sname=William Stephen Atkinson |sopt=t}}<br /> *{{worldcat id|lccn-n84-171602}}<br /> <br /> {{Authority control}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Atkinson, William Stephen}}<br /> [[Category:1820 births]]<br /> [[Category:1876 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:19th-century Indian zoologists]]<br /> [[Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge]]<br /> [[Category:English lepidopterists]]<br /> [[Category:Presidents of The Asiatic Society]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{UK-entomologist-stub}}<br /> {{India-scientist-stub}}</div>

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