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Abbott was the son of George Abbott of York (died 1607) and his wife Joan Penkeston.
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While Alumni Cantabrigienses states that he matriculated at King"s College, Cambridge in 1622, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography discounts the identification, for lack of evidence. On 15 August 1642, with eight men, his mother and maids, he held out for a time against Prince Rupert of the Rhine, with about 18 troops of horses and dragoons. In the aftermath of the Battle of Edgehill, in October of the same year, Richard Baxter moved to Coventry, and Abbot was one of those hearing him preach there.
Abbot was re-elected Member of Parliament for Tamworth in 1645 for the Long Parliament and held the seat until his death in 1648.
By his will, Abbot endowed a free school at Caldecote. lieutenant was supported by land left to it at Baddesley Ensor.
Abbot has been confused with others of the same name and has been described as a clergyman, which he never was. His writings have been incorrectly attributed in the bibliographical authorities to a relation of George Abbot the archbishop of Canterbury.
One of the sons of Sir Morris Abbot called George was also an Member of Parliament in the Short Parliament but for the constituency of Guildford.
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He is known also for his part in defending Caldecote House against royalist forces in the early days of the English Civil War. In his memoirs Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, Baxter placed Abbot"s defence of Caldecote House, where barns were burnt, in local context: royalists under Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton were attacking Warwick Castle, defended by John Bridges, and Coventry, defended by John Barker.
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In April 1640, he was elected Member of Parliament for Tamworth in the Short Parliament.
