Anglican clergyman and academic, Master of Balliol College, Oxford and Bishop of Salisbury (1560–1618)

Two angels holding a banner on which are eight portraits of British ecclesiastics in ovals. Engraving by P. Thomson, 1795, after R. Smirke.

The life of Dr. George Abbot, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury / by the Rt. Hon. Arthur Onlsow, late speaker of the House of Commons ... a description of the hospital which he ... endowed in ... Guildford; correct copies of the charter and statutes of the same ... To which are added the lives of his ... brothers, Dr. R. Abbot ... and Sir M. Abbot.

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