Edward Abbott Edward Abbott i(A95647 works by)
Born: Established: 1800 New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: 1869 Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

The son of Major Edward Abbott, a civil official in the colony of Van Diemen's Land, Edward Abbott was appointed clerk to his father in 1818. He became a pastoralist, and his claim to the ownership of certain land near Launceston became the subject of a long running dispute between Abbott and the colonial and British governments. In 1848 he became a police magistrate, and he was later elected as a Tasmanian MP.

Abbott was the editor, publisher and original proprietor of the Hobart Town Advertiser, which he began in April 1839 - and which strongly supported the government of Sir John Franklin. Although Abbott sold the Advertiser in 1842, he seems to have been retained as publisher and probably as editor for a time. In 1844 he became embroiled in a bitter personal dispute with another Tasmanian newspaper editor (Robert Lathrop Murray), which eventually led to the new owners of the Advertiser being sued for libel.

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