Robert George Abbot (c. 1861 - 1936)
Well-connected Middlesex-born licensed surveyor Robert Abbot — his parents were personal friends of Charles Dickens and Lord Lytton — arrived in South Australia at an early age, and worked as a chainman and surveyor in the South Australian Surveyor-General's Department (1877-1881). From South Australia, he moved to Victoria, where he qualified as a licensed surveyor in 1883, and then to Queensland, where he worked in various parts of the State, including Cairns, Brisbane, Ipswich, Maryborough, and Hughenden. He eventually settled at Nambour, where he died in 1936.
He was a foundation member of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia's Queensland Branch and the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science.
