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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Edwin Abbott was
an English educator. 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.
He married his first cousin Jane Abbott in 1831. The couple had eight
children, including Edwin Abbott Abbott, author of Flatland; a daughter,
Elizabeth, married John Humffreys Parry
