John Atherton
![John Atherton, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, was hanged for sodomy under a law that he had helped to institute; his proctor [[John Childe]] was also hanged. Anonymous pamphlet, 1641](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Atherton%2C_John_%281598-1640%29_%26_Childe%2C_John_%2816_-1640%29_-_1641_%28cropped%29.jpg)
John Atherton (1598 – 5 December 1640) was the Anglican Bishop of Waterford and Lismore in the Church of Ireland. He and John Childe (his steward and tithe proctor) were both tried and executed for buggery in 1640.
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