The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Abbott, Edwin Abbott

ABBOTT, Edwin Abbott, English theologian and Shakespearean scholar: b. London, 20 Dec. 1838; graduated St. John's College, Cambridge; senior classic and Chancellor's medalist (1861). He was master at King Edward's School, Birmington, 1862–64, and at Clifton College; and head-master of the City of London School, 1865–89, raising it to a foremost rank in England. In the latter year he retired. He has been select preacher at Cambridge and Oxford. His works include the well-known ‘Shakesperian Grammar’ (1869, enlarged 1870), still a classic; ‘Bacon and Essex’ (1877): ‘Philochristus’ (1878), and ‘Onesimus’ (1882), two anonymous romances of the first age of the Church; ‘Francis Bacon’ (1885); ‘Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman’ (1892); ‘St. Thomas of Canterbury’ (1898); ‘From Letter to Spirit’ (1903); ‘Johannine Vocabulary’ (1905); ‘The Son of Man’ or ‘Contributions to the Study of the Thoughts of Jesus’ (1910); ‘Light on the Gospel’ (Eng. ed. 1912: Am. ed. 1913); ‘The Fourfold Gospel’ (1913).