Abbott was born in London in 1808, the son of Edward Abbott, an oilman and Italian warehouseman descended from George Abbot, archbishop of Canterbury. In 1827 he was made headmaster of the Philological School of General Instruction, Marylebone, the school he had himself attended. As a headmaster he was known as firm but humane.[1] He married his first cousin Jane Abbott (1806–1882) in 1831.[1] The couple had eight children, including Edwin Abbott Abbott, author of Flatland; a daughter, Elizabeth, married John Humffreys Parry.
Abbott retired as headmaster in 1872, and died at Upper Norwood in 1882. The school was renamed St Marylebone Grammar School in 1901, and one of the four senior houses was named after Abbott.
Worksedit
(tr.) History of the Great Reformation, by J. H. Merle D'Aubigné, vol. 3, 1841
Handbook of Arithmetic and First Steps in Algebra
A Handbook of English Grammar, 1845
A Second Latin Book, 1858
A concordance to the works of Alexander Pope, 1875 Online version at the Internet Archive
^ abcJames M. Borg, ‘Abbott, Edwin (1808–1882)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2007, accessed 30 Oct 2008
January 01, 1970
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