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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Abbott, Edwin

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1904 Errata appended.

269533Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 01 — Abbott, Edwin1885no contributor recorded

ABBOTT, EDWIN (1808–1882), educational writer, born in London on 1 May 1808, was from 1827 to 1872 head master of the Philological School in Marylebone. Besides elementary works on Latin and English grammar he compiled a ‘Complete Concordance to the Works of Alexander Pope,’ which was published in 1875. He died on 12 May 1882.

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Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.1
N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line

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30 i 37 Abbott, Edwin: for 12 May 1882 read 27 May 1882, and was buried at Kensal Green