Atkins, James (2)

Atkins, James (2)

an English Wesleyan missionary, was born at Salisbury, Wiltshire, in 1808, and became a member of the Church at the age of seventeen, under Isaac Bradnack. In 1830 he received an appointment to Pembroke, and afterwards to Tenterden and to Ipswich. In 1834 he went to Jamaica, W. I, where he labored energetically and successfully until his death at Kingston, Jan. 24, 1854. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1854.