OUR HISTORY

 

The Buddle-Atkinson name started with the marriage of Eleanor Buddle & Smart Atkinson.​  Eleanor was the sister of the eminent colliery viewer come mining engineer John Buddle Jnr.

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Eleanor & Smart's son Robert Thomas Atkinson followed his uncle John Buddle Jnr in the family business of mining engineering, unfortunately he passed away only two years after the death of Buddle Jnr.

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Robert's estate was worth a significant amount, as he inherited a significant portion of Buddle Jnr 's £150,000 estate. The estate was managed by trustees on behalf of Robert's wife and children, until his son Buddle Atkinson reached full age.

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Buddle bought a property called Woolley Grange at Bradford on Avon, where he with his wife Clara Elizabeth Draper raised their children.  In 1880, he passed away after a fall from a Gig; upon which time Clara applied for a Heraldic Coat of Arms in memory of her late husband.​

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This Coat of Arms is pictured here.