George Frederick Abbott (28 October 1874 – 13 March 1947) was an

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war correspondent and author and the husband of

Wilhelmina Hay Abbott Wilhelmina Hay Abbott (; 22 May 1884 – 17 October 1957), also known by the name "Elizabeth Abbott," was a Scottish suffragist, editor, and feminist lecturer, and wife of author George Frederick Abbott. Early life and education Abbott was bor ...

Life

Abbott was educated at

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, taking the degree of B.A. in 1899. In 1900 he was sent by

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to Macedonia to make studies in the folklore of that region. Sympathetic to the Greek cause, he stayed in

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capi ...

for some time, before visiting Serres,

Sidirokastro Sidirokastro ( el, Σιδηρόκαστρο; Bulgarian and Macedonian: ''Valovišta''; tr, Demirhisar) is a town and a former municipality in the Serres regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipali ...

, Meleniko and Petrich. On his return trip he stayed in

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and

Kavala Kavala ( el, Καβάλα, ''Kavála'' ) is a city in northern Greece, the principal seaport of eastern Macedonia and the capital of Kavala regional unit. It is situated on the Bay of Kavala, across from the island of Thasos and on the Egnat ...

and toured

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. He acted as special correspondent in southwestern

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for several London newspapers until 1903. In 1905 he accompanied the Prince of Wales (later on, George V), on his tour of

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. For his contribution to Greek causes, he was awarded the decoration of Commander of the Order of the Redeemer by the Greek state. He was married to 'Elizabeth' Wilhelmina Hay Lamond (1884–1957), an equalitarian feminist campaigner, and they had one son, Commander (E) Jasper A.R. Abbott, OBE, RN (1911–1960). His works include a study on

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, a collection of folkloric material from the region of Macedonia, a treatise on

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and a book on the relations between Greece and the

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Works

Besides contributing articles to many reviews and magazines, he wrote: * ''Songs of Modern Greece'' (1900) * ''Macedonian Folk-Lore'' (1903) * ''The Tale of a Tour in Macedonia'' (1903) * ''Through India with the Prince'' (1906) * ''Israel in Europe'' (editor, 1907) * ''Greece in Evolution'' (1909) * ''Turkey in Transition'' (1909) * ''The Philosophy of a Don'' (1911) * ''The Holy War in Tripoli'' (1912) * ''Greece and the Allies'' (1914–1922) * ''Under the Turk in Constantinople (1920)

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* * * English male journalists 20th-century travel writers English travel writers English political writers English non-fiction writers 1874 births 1947 deaths Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge English male non-fiction writers English folklorists British expatriates in the Ottoman Empire {{UK-nonfiction-writer-stub