Robert Crowther Abbott (1869–1927) was the inaugural Bishop of Sherborne.^[1]

Robert Crowther Abbott was born into a clerical family: his father was the Rev. A. R. Abbott, sometime Vicar of Gorleston.^[2] He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge.^[3][4] After 15 years as an assistant master (and latterly chaplain^[5]) at his old school he was appointed principal of Salisbury Theological College in 1907. After incumbencies at Great St Mary's with St Michael's, Cambridge,^[6] Holy Trinity, Weymouth, Dorset^[7] and St Mary the Virgin, Gillingham, Dorset^[8] he was elevated to the episcopate in 1925, but ill health forced his resignation only two years later.^[9]