16 OCTOBER 1926, Page 3

We greatly regret to record the death of Dr. E.

A. Abbott at the age of eighty-seven. He was a very famous Head-Master of the City of London School. Under him the school became greatly respected at the Universities for its scholarship. Dr. Abbott was pressed to take the Head-Mastership of several other Public Schools, but he had other work to do when he retired— invaluable work of critical scholarship in theology and the classics, studies of Bacon and treatises on the correct writing of English.

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