ABBOTT, EDWIN ABBOTT (1838-1926), English schoolmaster and grammarian, succeeded G. F. Mortimer as headmaster of the City of London School in 1865. He was the author of a Shakespearian Grammar (1870), which is a perma nent contribution to English philology, and of many theological works, among them the article on the Gospels in the 9th ed. of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
His brother, Evelyn Abbott (1843-1901), was a tutor of Balliol, Oxford, and author of a scholarly History of Greece.