George Henry Abbott

George Henry Abbott (1867 to 1942) was an Australian surgeon who practiced in Macquarie Street, Sydney. He was the son of the wool-broker and politician Joseph Abbott, was educated at Newington College, and graduated in arts and medicine from the University of Sydney. He lectured in clinical surgery at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital from 1911 to 1927 and was appointed a Fellow on the foundation of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons. He served for many years as a councillor of the New South Wales branch of the British Medical Association and was then elected its president. Outside medicine he was a keen numismatist, president of the Royal Australian Historical Society from 1934 to 1936, and a fellow of the Senate of the University of Sydney from 1919 to 1929.