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| name = Evelyn Robins Abbott<br />
| honorific_suffix = [[Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]]<br />
| office = [[Chief Commissioner of Delhi]]<br />
| term_start = 1924<br />
| term_end = 1926<br />
| predecessor = [[Claud Alexander Barron]]<br />
| successor = [[Alexander Montague Stow|Alexander Stow]]<br />
}}<br />
{{Short description|British administrator in India (1873–1950)}}<br />
'''Evelyn Robins Abbott''', [[Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]] (9 May 1873 – 7 May 1950) was an administrator in British India. A member of the [[Indian Civil Service]], he was [[Chief Commissioner of Delhi]] from 1924 until 1926.<br />
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==Life==<br />
He was born at [[Derby]], the son of the civil engineer [[Samuel Abbott (engineer)|Sam Abbott]], and was educated at [[Bath College]]. He matriculated at [[Balliol College, Oxford]] in 1891.<ref name="WW">{{Who's Who|title=Abbott, Evelyn Robins|id=U221687}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Foster |first1=Joseph |title=Oxford Men & their Colleges |date=1893 |publisher=J. Parker |location=Oxford |page=524 |url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordmentheirco00fostrich/page/n524/mode/1up}}</ref><br />
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In 1909, Abbott married Lillian, daughter of [[William Ovens Clark]]; they had two sons and three daughters. After returning to England, he served as chairman of the Wallingford [[Rural district council|Rural District Council]] from 1939 until his death and was a member of the [[Berkshire County Council]] from 1939 to 1946.<ref name="WW"/><br />
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== References ==<br />
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* "Obituary", ''The Daily Telegraph'', 10 May 1950, p.&nbsp;3<br />
* "Mr E. R. Abbott", ''The Times'', 10 May 1950, p.&nbsp;8<br />
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