ABBOTT, AUGUSTUS (_eld. son of Henry Alexius Abbott, of Calcutta, merchant_). _b._ London 7 Jan. 1804; ed. at Warfield in Berks, Winchester, and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 16 April 1819; commanded the artillery in defence of Jellalabad, Nov. 1841 to April 1842; Col. 14 Nov. 1858 to death; served in Afghan war 1838–42; principal commissary of ordnance 12 Dec. 1847 to 9 Feb. 1855; inspector-general of ordnance and magazines Bengal 9 Feb. 1855–18 Jan. 1858; commander at Meerut 27 Jan. 1858; M.G. 13 April 1860; Douranee order conferred on him Nov. 1840, but he never wore it; C.B. 11 Oct. 1842; one of the finest artillery officers of his time. _d._ 4 Paragon buildings, Cheltenham 25 Feb. 1867. _The Afghan War, 1838–1842, from the Journal of the late Augustus Abbott. By C. R. Low._ 1879. ABBOTT, REV. EDWARD SINGLETON. Preb. of St. Michael’s in Ch. Ch. cathedral, Dublin 13 Aug. 1844; preb. of St. John’s 11 Mch. 1845; preb. of St. Michan’s 12 Feb. 1854–55; R. of St. Mary’s, Dublin 1855 to death; sub.-dean of chapel royal Dublin 1858 to death; committed suicide by shooting himself at 7 North Frederick st. Dublin 12 June 1865 aged 63. ABBOTT, EDWIN. _b._ London 12 May 1808; principal of Philological school 248 Marylebone road, London 1827–72; and secretary 1872 to death; one of the first to advocate a more thorough English training in schools; author of _A second Latin book_ 1858; _Greek tragic iambics_ 1864; _Complete concordance to works of Alexander Pope_ 1875. _d._ 18 Palace sq. Upper Norwood 27 May 1882. _bur._ Kensal Green 31 May. ABBOTT, JOHN (_son of Robert Abbott of Halifax, carpet manufacturer, who founded the carpet trade in Halifax with Mr. Crossley, and d. 1825_). _b._ Halifax 20 July 1796; a woolstapler there; took a leading part in all matters of social improvement and left charitable bequests of £61,500. _d._ Halifax 13 May 1870. ABBOTT, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ Cumberland 1789; ed. at Bampton sch. and Marischal coll. Aberdeen; Missionary of the S.P.G. at St. Andrew’s, Grenville, Lower Canada 1818–47, when he retired; wrote _The Emigrant to North America from memoranda of a settler in Canada_, first published in the Quebec _Mercury_ 1842, republished in many leading Canadian papers and in several English papers, including _Emigration Gazette_, and in pamphlet form by the Emigration agent. 2nd ed. 1843, it was also pub. in a more extended form by John Murray in the Home and Colonial library, under the title of _Philip Musgrave or the adventures of a Missionary in Canada_; contributed many tales to Canadian periodicals. _d._ Montreal, Jany. 1863. _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) _pp._ 3–4.