Abbott, EDWIN A., D.D., theologian and philologist, was born in London in 1838. After a brilliant career at St John's, Cambridge, he obtained a fellowship, was master at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and at Clifton College, and from 1865 to 1889 was headmaster of the City of London School. He has been select preacher at both universities, and his sermons have given him a place in the front rank of the more liberal theologians within the English Church. His view of Christianity he stated in Through Nature to Christ (1877). He is understood to be the author of Philochristus and Onesimus, two romances of the first age of the church, and of The Kernel and the Husk (1887), an amplification of the view of Christianity contained in the preceding. In 1884 he published, in conjunction with W. J. Rushbrooke, The Common Tradition of the Synoptic Gospels. His well-known Shakspearian
Grammar (1870) has been followed by several works of great practical value on the teaching of English. Of more general interest are his Bacon and Essex (1877), and Francis Bacon (1885).