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ABBOT, GEORGE; b.; adm. (aged 11) June 1747; left 1747. [Perhaps George Abbot (t), son of George Abbot (t), bapt. St. Luke, Chelsea 20 Dec 1734 (IGI), an elder brother of Mordecai Abbot (qv) ?]

ABBOT, JOHN FARR, eldest son of Rev. John Abbot DD, Rector of All Saints, Colchester, Essex, and Sarah, dau. of Jonathan Farr, Moorfields, London, citizen and draper; b. 24 Jan 1756; adm. Mar 1763; in sch. list Feb 1770; left 1770; adm. Inner Temple 8 May 1778; tenant of chambers there May 1778-Nov 1784; a Clerk, Court of King’s Bench, by 4 May 1780; Clerk of the Rules in the Court of King’s Bench; FSA 9 May 1793; FRS 20 Jun 1793; travelling in Italy 1793-4; m. 13 Jul 1786 Mary, dau. of Thomas Pearce, and great-niece of Zachary Pearce (qv); d. 22 Sep 1794.

ABBOT, JOHN, son of Thomas Abbot, London; b.; adm. (aged 10) Aug 1715 (“paid no fees”); KS (aged 14) 1721; left 1723. [Perhaps John Abbot, son of Thomas Abbot, and Mary (Lewis?, bapt. Christ Church, Newgate Street, London 4 Apr 1708 (IGI)]

ABBOT, MORDECAI; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1747/8; left 1748; 2nd Lieut., 9th Co. of Marines 12 Feb 1755; 1st Lieut., 97th [check] Co. 23 Jun 1756; Capt. 29 Jul 1762; Brevet Maj. 29 Aug 1777; retd. 1780. [Supplement describes him as probably a son of Maj. Mordecai Abbot, 20th Foot, Town Major of Gibraltar, but IGI gives a Mordecai Abbot, son of George Abbot, bapt. St. Luke, Chelsea 18 Jun 1737].

ABBOT, HON. PHILIP HENRY, second son of Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester (qv); b. 10 Jun 1802; adm 5 Feb 1817 (Packharness'); left 12 Jul 1817; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 Dec 1818, Canoneer Student [check], Faculty Student 1827-9; Vinerian Scholar 17 Feb 1821, Fellow 1828; 1st cl. Classics and 1st cl. Mathematics 1822; BA 1822; MA 1825; BCL 1828; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 5 Jun 1822, called to bar 2 May 1826; Recorder of Monmouth; m. 31 Dec 1829 Frances Cecil, third dau. of Very Rev. Charles Talbot DD, Dean of Salisbury; d. 8 Jan 1835.

ABBOT, SLOPER, son of Gilbert Abbot, and Elizabeth --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin in the Fields, London 28 Jul 1709 (IGI); adm. (aged 8) Jan 1717/8; left 1719.

ABBOTT, CHARLES FREDERICK, son of Capt. Charles Abbott, Royal Artillery, Dublin; b.; adm. 16 Jul 1770; KS (aged 13) 1772; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1777, adm. pens. 28 May 1777, scholar 15 May 1778, matr. Mich. 1777; Ensign 68th Foot 4 May 1785, Lieut. 11 Aug 1789; retd. 3 Aug 1793; m.; d. 6 Jan 1811.

ABBOTT, HENRY BETHUNE, eldest son of William Abbott, Parliament Street, Westminster, and Eliza --- (IGI); b. 5 Sep 1816; adm. 18 Jan 1830 (Stelfox's); adm. Gray’s Inn 12 Jun 1833.

Abbott, James Alexander, son of Albert Abbott CBE, Chief Inspector Technological branch, Board of Education, and Nancy, d. of Edwin Hargreaves of Chorley, Lancs; b. 25 April, 1909; adm. Sept. 1922 (R); left July 1927; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1927, BA 1931; adm. a solicitor Dec. 1934; practised in London and Burton-on-Trent; RAFVR (FO Oct. J 942), invalided Nov. 1943; m. 15 Sept. 1939 Eleanor Dorothy, d. of Ernest Hastings Nicolls of Stevenage, Herts; d. 20 May 1944 of illness contracted on active service in North Africa.

James Alexander Abbott was born at Wolverhampton, Staffordshire on the 25th of April 1909 the only son of Albert Abbott CBE MA, Chief Inspector for the Technological Branch of the Board of Education, and Nancy (nee Hargreaves) Abbott of 130, Tettenhall Road, Wolverhampton, later of Catwell, Williton in Somerset. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Rigaud’s from September 1922 to July 1927. He matriculated for Christ Church, Oxford in 1927 where he achieved a BA in 1931. He qualified as a solicitor in December 1934 and worked at Burton-on-Trent and in London, where he lived with his sister at 3, Templars Rise, Golders Green in Middlesex.
He was married at Hitchin, Hertfordshire on the 15th of September 1939 to Eleanor Dorothy (nee Nicolls) of Stevenage, Hertfordshire and the couple lived at Ivy House, Ickleton, Saffron Walden in Essex. They had a son, Roger, born on the 15th of June 1940.
He was commissioned as an Acting Pilot Officer on probation in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on the 17th of October 1941 and was confirmed in his rank on the 17th of December 1941. He was promoted to Flying Officer on the 1st of October 1942.
He served in North Africa and later returned to England where he resigned his commission on the grounds of ill health on the 24th of November 1943.
He died at Cambridge from an illness he had contracted while on overseas service.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Christ Church, Oxford.
He is buried at St George’s Church, Sampford Brett.

Abdela, Andrew David Russell, son of His Hon. Jack Samuel Ronald Abdela QC TD, Judge Central Criminal Court, and Enid Hope, d. of Edgar Dodd Russell of Richmond, Surrey; b. 24 Sept. 1946; adm. Jan. 1960 (G) left Dec. 1964; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1965, BA 1968, MA 1975; called to the Bar, Gray’s Inn, July 1969; Sir Malcolm Hilbery Schol. 1969; d. 2 Jan. 1976.