{{Short description|English politician}} {{for|his contemporary with a similar name who also sat in the Short and Long parliaments but for the constituency of Tamworth|George Abbot (author)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} {{Use British English|date=March 2018}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = George Abbotts | image = | alt = | caption = | office1 = Long Parliament Member for Guildford | term_start1 = November 1640 | term_end1 = 1645 | office2 = Short Parliament Member for Guildford | term_start2 = April 1640 | term_end2 = November 1640 | birth_date = {{birth date text|1602}} | birth_place = Middlesex, England | death_date = {{death year and age|1645|1602}} | death_place = | father = Sir Maurice Abbot(ts) | education = Balliol College, Oxford<br/>Merton College, Oxford<br/>Cambridge University | spouse = | children = }} '''George Abbotts''' or '''Abbot''' (1602–1645) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1645.
==Biography== Abbotts was born in Middlesex, the son of Sir Maurice Abbot(ts). He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford on 15 October 1619, aged 17 and was awarded BA on 28 February 1622. In 1622 he became a fellow of Merton College, Oxford and was awarded M.A. on 20 May 1625. He was incorporated at Cambridge University in 1627 and was awarded B.C.L. on 16 November 1630.<ref name=Venn>{{acad|id=ABTS627G|name=Abbotts, George}}</ref><ref>[https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=117042 ''Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Abannan-Appletre'', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 1-28. Date accessed: 19 February 2011]</ref>
In April 1640, Abbotts was elected Member of Parliament for Guildford in the Short Parliament and supported the Parliamentary (Roundhead) cause. He was re-elected MP for Guildford in the Long Parliament in November 1640 and sat until his death.<ref name=Willis>{{Cite Notitia Parliamentaria |part=2 |pages=229,236 }}</ref> In July 1641 he wanted to resign his seat, but his request was not granted.<ref>{{cite book |author=Great Britain. Parliament|year=1753 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WykOAAAAQAAJ |title=The parliamentary or constitutional history of England;: being a faithful account of all the most remarkable transactions in Parliament, from the earliest times. Collected from the journals of both Houses, the records, ... |volume=9 |publisher=Printed; and sold by Thomas Osborne, et al}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Abbotts, George}} Category:1602 births Category:1645 deaths Category:People from Middlesex (before 1889) Category:Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge Category:Fellows of Merton College, Oxford Category:English MPs 1640 (April) Category:English MPs 1640–1648 Category:Roundheads