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Not who you're looking for? Others named John Atkinson: English cricketer (1878-1951) · association football player (1884-1914) · English rugby union footballer, and rugby league footballer · academic scholar (born 1938)
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John Atkinson (died 1943) was the mayor of Toowoomba, Queensland in 1913 and a former Queensland wrestling champion. Born in Cumberland, England, he came to Australia in 1878 took jobs first as a schoolteacher and then as a businessman. He was a Toowoomba City Council alderman in 1907 and from 1910 to 1912. He died on 19 May 1943.
