Robert Abbott (bishop)

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "about". Template:Use dmy dates Robert Crowther Abbott (1869–1927) was the inaugural Bishop of Sherborne.[1] Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Robert Crowther Abbott was born into a clerical family: his father was the Rev. A. R. Abbott, sometime Vicar of Gorleston.[2] He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge.[3][4] After 15 years as an assistant master (and latterly chaplain[5]) at his old school he was appointed principal of Salisbury Theological College in 1907. After incumbencies at Great St Mary's with St Michael's, Cambridge,[6] Holy Trinity, Weymouth, Dorset[7] and St Mary the Virgin, Gillingham, Dorset[8] he was elevated to the episcopate in 1925, but ill health forced his resignation only two years later.[9]

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  1. Ecclesiastical News. First Suffragan Bishop Of Sherborne. (Official Appointments and Notices) The Times Saturday, Feb 28, 1925; pg. 15; Issue 43898; col D
  2. ”Who was Who 1897-1990” London, A & C Black, 1991 Template:ISBN
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  4. 'University Intelligence. Cambridge, April 5. (Official Appointments and Notices)', The Times, Saturday, Apr 06, 1889; pg. 13; Issue 32666; col C
  5. He was ordained in 1904 Who was Who (ibid)
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  9. The Times, Saturday, Nov 26, 1927; pg. 10; Issue 44749; col E Bishop R. C. Abbott Obituary

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1925–1927 Template:S-ttl/check
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