His mother was a daughter of Sir Robert Atkyns, lord chief baron, and it was probably on account of the legal eminence of his grandfather that he adopted the name of Atkyns.
He had taken notes of the cases in the court of Chancery from Hilary term 1736 to Michaelmas term 1754, and he published condensed reports of them in three volumes (1765, 1667, 1668); a second edition appeared 1781/2, and a third, edited by Francis Williams Sanders, in 1794 (see Atkyns' Reports).
By his wife, whose name was Katherine Lindsay, he left no children.
[1] Lord Chief-Justice Wilmot describes him in his diary as "a cheerful, good-humoured, honest man, a good husband, master, and friend".
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