Robert Crowther Abbott (1869–1927) was the inaugural Bishop of Sherborne.
[1] Robert Crowther Abbott was born into a clerical family: his father was the Rev.
[3][4] After 15 years as an assistant master (and latterly chaplain[5]) at his old school he was appointed principal of Salisbury Theological College in 1907.
After incumbencies at Great St Mary's with St Michael's, Cambridge,[6] Holy Trinity, Weymouth, Dorset[7] and St Mary the Virgin, Gillingham, Dorset[8] he was elevated to the episcopate in 1925, but ill health forced his resignation only two years later.
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