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He was educated at the City of London School and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took the highest honours in classics, mathematics and theology, and became fellow of his college. In 1862Events January-March January 10 End of term for John Gately Downey, 7th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Amasa Leland Stanford. January 30 The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched. February 1 Julia Ward Howe's " Battle Hy he took orders. After holding masterships at King Edward's School, BirminghamKing Edward's School KES is an independent secondary school in Birmingham, England, founded by King Edward VI in 1552. Located in Edgbaston, it is part of the Foundation of Schools of King Edward VI in Birmingham and one of the leading secondary schools i, and at Clifton CollegeFounded in 1862, Clifton College is a coeducational public school in Clifton, Bristol, England. It is divided into three separate sections: the Pre-Preparatory takes children from the ages of 3-8; the Preparatory is for boys and girls from the ages of 8-1, he succeeded G. F. Mortimer as headmaster of the City of London School in 18651865 is a common year starting on Sunday. Events January 31 American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief. February 17 American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina burns as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forc at the early age of twenty-six. He was Hulsean lecturer in 1876Events January events January 31 The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations. February events February 2 The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed. February 14 Alexander Graham Bell a.

He retired in 1889Events January-April January 8 Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine January 22 Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC. February 11 Meiji Constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890 January 30 ? Crown, and devoted himself to literary and theological pursuits. Dr. Abbott's liberal inclinations in theology were prominent both in his educational views and in his books. His Shakespearian Grammar ( 1870Events January 6 The inauguration of the Musikverein ( Vienna). January 10 John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil January 15 A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking) is a permanent contribution to English philology. In 1885 he published a life of Francis Bacon. His theological writings include three anonymously published religious romances - Philochristus ( 1878), Onesimus ( 1882), and Sitanus ( 1906).

More weighty contributions are the anonymous theological discussion The Kernel and the Husk ( 1886), Philomythus ( 1891), his book The Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman ( 1892), and his article "The Gospels" in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, embodying a critical view which caused considerable stir in the English theological world. He also wrote St Thomas of Canterbury, his Death and Miracles ( 1898), Johannine Vocabulary ( 1905), Johannine Grammar ( 1906). Flatland was published in 1884.

His brother, Evelyn Abbott ( 1843 - 1901), was a well-known tutor of Balliol College, Oxford, and author of a scholarly history of Greece.