Francis Atterbury

Francis Atterbury ( born March 6, 1663 Milton Keynes, † March 3, 1732 in Paris) was an English Bishop of Rochester.

Born in Buckinghamshire, he attended school in Westminster and then from Christ Church College in Oxford. In 1691, he became a preacher at St. Bride in London and royal chaplain. He belonged to the High Church direction and fought the liberal bishops and the Whig party. Therefore, he was appointed after the fall of the Whigs in 1712 as Dean of Christ Church and Bishop of Rochester. In 1720 he instigated a Jacobite conspiracy, which was discovered in 1722. Atterbury was deposed and banished, was until 1728 in the service of the Pretender James Francis Edward Stuart ( the son of King James II ), and died March 3, 1732 in Paris.