Samuel Abbott

Samuel Abbott, MICE was an English railway engineer, born in Calverton, Nottinghamshire on 28 March 1842 and died in Buenos Aires on 17 May 1890. Samuel Abbott was the general manager of the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway at the time of his death.

Life He was born in 1842, the son of Evelyn Abbott (1811-1871) and Mary Lamb (1815-1898).

He married Jane Robins Robins (1844-1914) on 30 July 1872 at St Jude’s Church, East Brixton, London, and they had the following children: Evelyn Robins Abbott (1873-1950) Thomas Robert Lamb Abbott (1875-1909) Samuel Herbert Lee Abbott (1877-1951) Reginald Stuart Abbott (b. 1883) Albert Victor Abbott (b. 1885) Victoria Mary Abbott (b. 1888)

He died of Typhoid at the age of 49

After completion of the Derbyshire and Staffordshire extension, Abbott was transferred to Lincoln as the resident engineer for the northern section of the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway; designing and superintending the construction of 20 miles of that railway between Market Rasen and Grimsby

After resigning from the Great Northern Railway, Abbott joined the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway in 1885, rising to the position of general manager.