Edwin Abbott Abbott
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Edwin Abbott Abbott was an English schoolmaster, theologian, and Anglican priest, best known as the author of the novella Flatland.
Flatland title page, 1884
H. H. Asquith
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Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, was a British statesman, Liberal politician and barrister who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 until his resignation in 1916. H
Edwin Abbott Abbott
…G. F. Mortimer as headmaster of the City of London School in 1865, at the early age of 26. There, he oversaw the education of future Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. Abbott was Hulsean lecturer in 1876. He retired in 1889, and devoted himself to literary and theological pursuits. Abbott's open-minded inclinations…
Asquith c. 1910s
Asquith (left) with his sister Emily and elder brother William, c. 1857
Asquith in 1876
Asquith, caricatured by Spy, in Vanity Fair, 1891