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Edwin Abbott ( May 12 , 1808May 27 , 1882 ) 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 wrote textbooks on Latin , English Grammar and Alexander Pope . He married his first cousin Jane Abbott ( 1806 –1882) c. 1830 , and the couple had eight children. Abbott died at Upper Norwood in 1882.