William James Lewis Abbott
| William James Lewis Abbott FGS | |||||||||
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| Died | 1933 | ||||||||
| Residence | 8 Grand Parade, St Leonard’s on Sea | ||||||||
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Office Notes
House Notes
1904.01.12 Proposed by F.W. Rudler; seconded by Alfred Lionel Lewis
1932. 01.26 The names of the following Fellows to be removed from the list of Fellows: Messrs N.F. Hall, W.J. Lewis Abbott, Arthur Michael Forde, Dr Heinrich Krause, D.S. Reddi, Nathaniel F. Robarts, Leslie F. Taylor, E.N. Fallaize, Capt. D.A.G. Dallas, Mr M.H. Krishniengar, Dr J.W. Tomb.
Notes From Elsewhere
An early and notable member of the developing Ightham circle was W. J. Lewis Abbott, a London jeweler, and an amateur geologist
[from Nature 26 Aug. 1933] THE death is reported of William James Lewis Abbott, the well-known archologist, at the age of eighty years, at St. Leonards-on-Sea. He was by calling a jeweller, and early in his career took up the scientific study of gem-stones, a subject on which he instituted classes and became a lecturer at the Polytechnic. Extending his studies to geology, his interests centred particularly on the more recent deposits of the south coast of England. It was inevitable at that time that he should be attracted to the investigation of the earliest evidence of man’s handiwork, and the associated animal remains, in these deposits. As one of the pioneers in the study of man’s first efforts in the shaping of stone implements, Abbott’s views were those of a practical man and based upon his experience and study of the character of the material in which he himself had worked. He maintained that a scientific knowledge of the nature of stone was an essential preliminary to argument based upon technical considerations of form. Throughout his life a lover of a specialised terminology, he coined for this study the name litho-clasiology, as he had christened his earlier researches ‘gemmology’.
Publications
External Publications
Ightham, the story of a Kentish village and its surroundings by Francis James Bennett and W J. Lewis Abbott
The pre-historic races of Hastings
1898
by W. J Lewis-Abbott
The older prehistoric races of Sussex: A paper read before the Eastbourne Natural History Society
1909
by W. J Lewis-Abbott
House Publications
Classification of the British stone age industries 1911
1919.03.11 exhibited flint implements from the Cromer Forest Bed and the Admiralty Site, Whitehall, and other specimens were exhibited and described
