David Abbott (priest)

David Charles Abbott (14 August 1844 – 22 April 1917) was an Irish Anglican priest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: He was Archdeacon of Clogher from 1906[1] to 1917.

[3] In 1870, he married Louisa Mills, daughter of John Wills, mayor of Tiverton, Devon.

His son by his second wife, Vivian Hartley Church Abbott, a surveyor in British Columbia who served with the Canadian Corps, was killed on the Western Front a few months after Rev.

Vivian was injured at the Battle of Hill 70 and evacuated, only to be shelled the next day while en route to the field hospital.

[10] Another son, Herbert Henry Bloxham Abbott, also served with the Canadian army and was awarded the Military Cross in 1917.