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Life Summary

Name	Edward Abbott
Born	1766 Montreal, Canada
Died	31 July, 1832 (aged ~ 66) Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Cause of Death	unknown
Cultural Heritage	Canadian Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Johnston, George (senior officer)
Passenger Ship *	Scarborough (1790) (army officer)
Occupation *	defence forces personnel (British) (1791-1794) Norfolk Island, Australia magistrate (1803-1808) New South Wales, Australia landowner (1825-1832) Tasmania, Australia Member of Upper House (1825-1827) Tasmania, Australia public servant (1825-1832) Tasmania, Australia
Military Service *	New South Wales Corps (army officer, 1789-1810)
Key Events *	Irish insurrection, 1804 (captain, NSW Corps) Rum Rebellion (1808) (approved Bligh's arrest) Second Fleet (1789-90) (convict)
Maps *	Map of the Settlements on and near the Derwent River, Van Diemen's Land 1819, G W Evans (location) Plan of the Allotments of Ground, Granted from the Crown in NSW, J Burr and G Ballisat, 1814 (location) Plan of the Settlements in New South Wales, Charles Grimes, 1796 (location)
Key Organisations *	Van Diemen's Land Bank (original subscriber, 1823)
Key Places *	Port Dalrymple penal settlement (commandant, 1826)
Political Activism *	separationist (Tasmania, 1820)
Workplaces *	Norfolk Island Penal Colony (army officer, 1791-1794) Norfolk Island Penal Colony (commandant, 1804-1805) Supreme Court of Tas (judge advocate, 1814-1824)

* Dates are approximate