Edwin Abbott

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For Edwin Abbott's son, also an educator, see Edwin Abbott Abbott.

Edwin Abbott (May 12, 1808 – May 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.