A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Abdy, Edward Strutt

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ABDY, EDWARD STRUTT.
Traveller and Author.
1791— 1846.

Admitted 19 June, 1813.

Fifth son of the Rev. Thomas Abdy Abdy, of Coopersale, near Epping, Essex. His maternal grandfather was James Hayes, a Bencher of the Middle Temple. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1813, and obtained a Fellowship. He died at Bath 12 Oct. 1846, and is remembered for a work upon America, entitled Journal of a Residence and Tour in the United States (1833—1834), published in 1835; also for a treatise on The Water Cure, translated from the German of Von Falkenstein (1842).