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| | Chapter Abbott <i>to</i> Adamnan of A by Biographical Dictionary of English Literature |
 | | Abbott, Jacob (1803-1879).Educationalist and miscellaneous author, born at Hallowell, Maine, educated at Bowdoin College and Andover, entered the ministry of the Congregational Church, but was best known as an educationist and writer of religious and other books, mainly for the young. |
 | | Abbott, John Stevens Cabot (1805-1877).Historian, etc., born Brunswick, Maine, and educated at Bowdoin College He studied theology and became a minister of the Congregational Church at various places in Massachusetts and Connecticut. |
 | | À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott (1811-1856).Comic writer, born in London, the son of a lawyer, and belonged to a family claiming descent from Thomas à Becket. |
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