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Surname	Abbott	Alternative Surname
First Name	Charles, of Aylsham	Initial of Surname	A
Year of Birth/Baptism	1753	Flourished
Year of Death	1839
Biographical Details	Gunnis considers his work typical of the early 19th-century Norwich school. At some stage he worked in partnership, for the monument to Sir John Lubbock is signed ‘Abbott and Thompson’(7). It seems likely that this co-sculptor was J Thompson of Aylsham. Abbott’s premises in Aylsham were taken over in 1834 by his assistant John Freeman, who had worked for Abbott for ‘many years’ (Norwich Mercury, 20 Sept 1834). Abbott died in 1839, aged 86, and was bmalcolmuried in Aylsham churchyard, where his headstone remains. Archival References: IGI Literary References: Gunnis 1968, 13; Add inf. Jon Bayliss