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'''George Mounsey Atkinson'''
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AI Council 1887 Member<br />AI Council 1888 Member<br />AI Council 1889 Member<br />AI Council 1890 Member<br />AI Council 1891 Member<br />AI Council 1892 Member<br />AI Council 1893 Member<br />AI Council 1894 Member<br />AI Council 1895 Member<br />AI Council 1896 Member<br />AI Council 1897 Member<br />AI Council 1898 Member<br />AI Council 1900 Member<br />AI Council 1901 Member
=== House Notes ===
proposed 1874.05.12<br />1881.02.22. A letter was read from Mr G.M. Atkinson suggesting the co-operation of the Institute with the Gaelic Society in order to induce the Government to include in the forthcoming census a return of the Gaelic speaking population of Scotland.<br />1881.04.26. A letter was read from Mr G.M. Atkinson, calling the attention of the Council to certain massacres of Australian Aborigines alleged to have taken place in Queensland. The Assistant Secretary was instructed to refer Mr Atkinson to the Aborigines Protection Society.<br />death noted in the report of the council for 1908: In Mr. G. M. Atkinson the Institute has lost one of its oldest fellows. He was elected in 1874, and was a well-known figure at the meetings. He had more than once served on the Council.
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Born Queenstown, Co. Cork, Ireland. Art Examiner at South Kensington. Editor of Brash’s ‘Ogham inscribed monuments of Gaedhil’ published in 1879<br /><br />ATKINSON, GEORGE MOUNSEY WHEATLEY [FATHER]<br />(b. about 1806, d. 1884)<br />Marine Painter Born in or about 1806 at Queenstown, County Cork, of English parents. He spent his early life at sea as a ship's carpenter, and was afterwards Government Surveyor of Shipping and Emigrants at Queenstown, where he was known as Captain Atkinson. As an artist he was self-taught, and his works, though possessing little merit as pictures, show a thorough knowledge of the sea. His first signed picture was painted in 1841, and he exhibited marine subjects in the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1842. His "Visit of the Queen and Prince Albert to Queenstown in 1849" was lithographed and published by W. Scraggs of Cork; and a volume of "Sketches in Norway, taken during a yachting cruise in the summer of 1852," was lithographed by his son, G. M. Atkinson, and published by Guy Brothers, Cork. Atkinson died at his residence, 3 Mervue Terrace, Queenstown, on 7th January, 1884, aged 78. He had three sons and one daughter: First, GEORGE MOUNSEY ATKINSON, for many years Art Examiner at South Kensington, who was in his early days an ardent student of Irish archaeology, contributing papers to the Journal of the Royal Society of Irish Antiquaries, and also editing R. R. Brash's "Ogham Inscribed Monuments of Gaedhil," published in London in 1879. He died at his residence in West Brompton, on 1st January, 1908. Second, RICHARD PETERSON ATKINSON, a landscape and marine painter who lived near Cork, and died in 1882, aged about 26. Third, ROBERT ATKINSON, marine painter, living in 1905. Fourth, SARAH (Mrs. Dobbs), married in 1885; art teacher, now resident in Dublin.<br />
Editor of Brash’s ‘Ogham inscribed monuments of Gaedhil’ published in 1879
=== House Publications ===
On a Kitchen Midden in Cork Harbor 1872<br />On a new method of finding the cephalic index 1878<br />The instruments to measure facial angle 1879
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