Judge advocate, was born Denham Court on 22 March 1745, the fifth son of Sir William Bowyer, baronet, and his wife Anne, née Stonhouse. He assumed the surname Atkins in recognition of a legacy from Sir Richard Atkins, of Clapham, Surrey, England. On 3 February 1773 he married Elizabeth, née Brady, of Dublin.
He procured a military commission and by the 1780s became adjutant to the Isle of Man Corps.
Sailed for Sydney in the Pitt, arriving in February 1792. He made much of the fame of his brothers, Sir William Bowyer, Lieutenant-General Henry Bowyer and Admiral Sir George Bowyer, and of being a close friend of Samuel Thornton, judge-advocate of London, and the governors were impressed by his connexions.
Soon after he arrived, Phillip made him a magistrate at Parramatta and in March 1792 appointed him registrar of the Vice-Admiralty Court; this enabled him to enhance the aura of influential prestige.
The judge-advocate was the senior judicial officer in the colony, the president of both the civil and criminal courts, 'committing magistrate, public prosecutor and judge'. as time went on took Atkins increasingly into official confidence. Atkins served as registrar of exports and imports, assistant inspector of public works at Parramatta and temporary superintendent of police, when Macarthur resigned as inspector of public works in 1796 Atkins took his place.
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He procured a military commission and by the 1780s became adjutant to the Isle of Man Corps.
Sailed for Sydney in the Pitt, arriving in February 1792. He made much of the fame of his brothers, Sir William Bowyer, Lieutenant-General Henry Bowyer and Admiral Sir George Bowyer, and of being a close friend of Samuel Thornton, judge-advocate of London, and the governors were impressed by his connexions.
Soon after he arrived, Phillip made him a magistrate at Parramatta and in March 1792 appointed him registrar of the Vice-Admiralty Court; this enabled him to enhance the aura of influential prestige.
The judge-advocate was the senior judicial officer in the colony, the president of both the civil and criminal courts, 'committing magistrate, public prosecutor and judge'. as time went on took Atkins increasingly into official confidence. Atkins served as registrar of exports and imports, assistant inspector of public works at Parramatta and temporary superintendent of police, when Macarthur resigned as inspector of public works in 1796 Atkins took his place.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bowyer-69
Judge advocate, was born Denham Court on 22 March 1745, the fifth son of Sir William Bowyer, baronet, and his wife Anne, née Stonhouse. He assumed the surname Atkins in recognition of a legacy from Sir Richard Atkins, of Clapham, Surrey, England. On 3 February 1773 he married Elizabeth, née Brady, of Dublin.
He procured a military commission and by the 1780s became adjutant to the Isle of Man Corps.
Sailed for Sydney in the Pitt, arriving in February 1792. He made much of the fame of his brothers, Sir William Bowyer, Lieutenant-General Henry Bowyer and Admiral Sir George Bowyer, and of being a close friend of Samuel Thornton, judge-advocate of London, and the governors were impressed by his connexions.
Soon after he arrived, Phillip made him a magistrate at Parramatta and in March 1792 appointed him registrar of the Vice-Admiralty Court; this enabled him to enhance the aura of influential prestige.
The judge-advocate was the senior judicial officer in the colony, the president of both the civil and criminal courts, 'committing magistrate, public prosecutor and judge'. as time went on took Atkins increasingly into official confidence. Atkins served as registrar of exports and imports, assistant inspector of public works at Parramatta and temporary superintendent of police, when Macarthur resigned as inspector of public works in 1796 Atkins took his place.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bowyer-69
He procured a military commission and by the 1780s became adjutant to the Isle of Man Corps.
Sailed for Sydney in the Pitt, arriving in February 1792. He made much of the fame of his brothers, Sir William Bowyer, Lieutenant-General Henry Bowyer and Admiral Sir George Bowyer, and of being a close friend of Samuel Thornton, judge-advocate of London, and the governors were impressed by his connexions.
Soon after he arrived, Phillip made him a magistrate at Parramatta and in March 1792 appointed him registrar of the Vice-Admiralty Court; this enabled him to enhance the aura of influential prestige.
The judge-advocate was the senior judicial officer in the colony, the president of both the civil and criminal courts, 'committing magistrate, public prosecutor and judge'. as time went on took Atkins increasingly into official confidence. Atkins served as registrar of exports and imports, assistant inspector of public works at Parramatta and temporary superintendent of police, when Macarthur resigned as inspector of public works in 1796 Atkins took his place.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bowyer-69
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"One Thousand Years In A Village Church" Hazel Harries, both in the section on the Bowyers and more particularly in pages 56 and 57 with reference to the Bowyer Vault where it is said Richard Atkins was buried and mentions brass / lead plates for him and his wife
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