Basil Ferris Campbell Atkinson (1895–1971) was the under-librarian of the University of Cambridge and Keeper of Manuscripts[1] from 1925 to 1960, and a writer on theology. He was born in Tonbridge, Kent and attended Tonbridge School before, in 1919,[2] entering Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read for a Classics degree and took a double first.[3] He went on to obtain a Ph.D. in 1926.[3] He was actively involved with the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union for many years and in the formation of the Inter Varsity Fellowship (now the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship), and also as a writer of academic literature, and Christian books and Bible commentaries. He remained in Cambridge until his death.