Albert Leigh Abbott

Lieutenant Colonel Albert Leigh Abbott MC TD FRIBA (1890 - 1952) was an architect based in London.

Abbott & Partners (William Beswick and Geoffrey Richard Shires) and this was dissolved on 1 November 1952[2] shortly before his death.

He married Alice Elizabeth Hudson (1893-1981) on 5 January 1918 in St Margaret's Church, Westminster.

He died on 13 December 1952 at his home at 15 College Road, West Dulwich when his car caught fire in his garage.

[3] In the First World War he served as a Corporal in the London Regiment and on 21 August 1915 he was commissioned into the London Divisional Engineers before later being transferred to the Corps of Royal Engineers in the Territorial Army where he was awarded the Military Cross in 1918.