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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 26 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABBOTT , *DWIN ABBOTT (1838- ), See also:

English school-See also:master and theologian, was See also:born on the 2oth of See also:December 1838. He was educated at the See also:City of See also:London school and at St See also:John's See also:College,, See also:Cambridge, where he took the highest honours in the classical, mathematical and theological triposes, and became See also:fellow of his college. In 1862 he took orders. After holding masterships at See also:King See also:Edward's School, See also:Birmingham, and at See also:Clifton College, he succeeded G. F. See also:Mortimer as headmaster of the City of London school in 1865 at the See also:early See also:age of twenty-six. He was Hulsean lecturer in 1876. He retired in 1889, and devoted himself to See also:literary and theological pursuits. Dr Abbott's liberal inclinations in See also:theology were prominent both in his educational views and in his books. His Shakespearian See also:Gram-See also:mar (187o) is a permanent contribution to English See also:philology. In 1885 he published a See also:life of See also:Francis See also:Bacon. His theological writings include three anonymously published religious romances—Philochristus (1878),Onesimus (1882), Silanus (1906).

More weighty contributions are the See also:

anonymous theological discussion The See also:Kernel and the Husk (1886), Fhilomythus (1891), his See also:book on See also:Cardinal See also:Newman as an See also:Anglican (1892), and his See also:article "The Gospels" in the ninth edition of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica, embodying a See also:critical view which caused considerable stir in the English theological See also:world; he also wrote St See also:Thomas of See also:Canterbury, his See also:Death and Miracles (1898), Johannine Vocabulary (1905), Johannine See also:Grammar (1906). His See also:brother, See also:Evelyn Abbott (1843-1901), was a well-known See also:tutor of Balliol, See also:Oxford, and author of a scholarly See also:History of See also:Greece.

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