George Abbot (bishop)


George Abbot
Archbishop of Canterbury
Portrait in the National Portrait Gallery, 1623
ChurchChurch of England
DioceseCanterbury
Installed4 March 1611
Term ended4 August 1633
PredecessorRichard Bancroft
SuccessorWilliam Laud
Orders
Consecration3 December 1609
by Richard Bancroft
Personal details
Born29 October 1562
Died4 August 1633(1633-08-04) (aged 70)
Croydon, Surrey, England
DenominationAnglican

George Abbot (29 October 1562 – 4 August 1633)[1][a] was an English divine who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1611 to 1633.[3][5][6] He also served as the fourth chancellor of the University of Dublin, from 1612 to 1633.[7]

Chambers Biographical Dictionary describes him as "[a] sincere but narrow-minded Calvinist".[8] Among his five brothers,[3] Robert became Bishop of Salisbury[8] and Maurice became Lord Mayor of London.[9] He was a translator of the King James Version of the Bible.

  1. ^ Oldys, William (1777). The life of Dr. George Abbot, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury – via Text Creation Partnership.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference EB1911 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b c Fincham, Kenneth. "Abbot, George". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ Lee, Sidney (1885). "Abbot, George (1562-1633)" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 5.
  5. ^ Darwall-Smith, Robin, A History of University College, Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-928429-0. George Abbot, pages 120–126
  6. ^ Abbot, George in the Christian Cyclopedia
  7. ^ "Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860 George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p1: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  8. ^ a b Magnus Magnusson, ed. (1990). Chambers Biographical Dictionary (Fifth ed.). Edinburgh: W & R Chambers Ltd. p. 2. ISBN 055016040X.
  9. ^ Lee, Sidney (1885). "Abbot, Maurice" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 21–24.


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