Robert Abbott or Abbot may refer to:
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Robert Abbot (bishop)
Robert Abbot (1560 – 2 March 1618) was an Anglican bishop, academic and polemical writer. He served as Master of Balliol College, Oxford, Regius Professor of Divinity, and Bishop of Salisbury from 1615. Among his four younger brothers, George ...
(1560–1617), Bishop of Salisbury
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Robert Abbot (theologian) (1588?–1662?), English Puritan theologian
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Robert Abbott, Baronet Hadfield (1858–1940), English metallurgist
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Robert Abbott (bishop)
Robert Crowther Abbott (1869–1927) was the inaugural Bishop of Sherborne.
Robert Crowther Abbott was born into a clerical family: his father was the Rev. A. R. Abbott, sometime Vicar of Gorleston. He was educated at Marlborough College and T ...
(1869–1927), Bishop of Sherborne
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Robert Abbott (New South Wales politician)
Robert Palmer Abbott (1830 – 31 October 1901) was a politician and solicitor in colonial New South Wales, a member of both the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council.
Abbott was born in Broadford, County Clare in Ireland, and emi ...
(1830–1901), Irish-born politician in New South Wales
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Robert Abbott (Michigan politician)
Robert Abbott (1770April 5, 1852) was a Michigan politician.
Early life
Abbott was born in 1770 in Detroit, Province of Quebec. His father was James Abbott, was a Euro-American who had moved to what is now Michigan and who would have two other y ...
(1770–1852), Michigan politician
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Robert Sengstacke Abbott
Robert Sengstacke Abbott (December 24, 1870 – February 29, 1940) was an American lawyer, newspaper publisher and editor. Abbott founded ''The Chicago Defender'' in 1905, which grew to have the highest circulation of any black-owned newspaper i ...
(1870–1940), African-American lawyer and publisher
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Robert S. Abbott House
The Robert S. Abbott House is a historic house in the Grand Boulevard community area of Chicago, Illinois. Built about 1900, it was home from 1926 until his death of Robert S. Abbott (1870-1940), founder and publisher of the ''Chicago Defen ...
, former home of Robert Sengstacke Abbot
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R. Tucker Abbott
Robert Tucker Abbott (September 28, 1919 – November 3, 1995) was an American conchologist (seashells) and malacologist (molluscs). He was the author of more than 30 books on malacology, which have been translated into many languages.
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(1919–1995), American conchologist and malacologist
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Robert Abbott (game designer)
Robert Abbott (March 2, 1933February 20, 2018) was an American game inventor, sometimes referred to by fans as "The Official Grand Old Man of Card Games". Though early in his life he worked as a computer programmer with the I ...
(1933–2018), American game designer
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Robert Abbott (director) (born 1964), American film director and TV producer
*Robert Abbott (fl. 1930s–1960s), a founder of
Abbott and Holder
Abbott and Holder is an art gallery and dealership in London, England, that specialises in low-price, 19th- and 20th-century English paintings, watercolours, drawings and prints. The gallery has been located at 30 Museum Street, London WC1 si ...
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Robert Abbot (politician)
Robert Abbot ( fl. 1415–1422) was an English politician who served as Member of Parliament for Melcombe Regis in 1420 and May 1421 and bailiff of Melcombe Regis from September 1415 to 1416, from 1417 to 1419, and from 1421 to 1422. He was a son ...
, 15th-century English politician
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Bob Abbott
Bob Abbott (November 1, 1932 – March 23, 2010) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as a justice of the Kansas Supreme Court from September 1, 1990, to June 6, 2003.
Early life and education
Abbott was born in Hodgeman County, Kansas. ...
(1932–2010), Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court
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