Sir Charles Arthur Hillas Lempriere Abbott (31October 188914September 1960) was an Australian lawyer, jurist and politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seats of East Torrens (1933âÂÂ1938) and Burnside (1938âÂÂ1946), and was a Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia (1946âÂÂ1959).
Abbott was born 31 October 1889 at Wagga Wagga Hospital in the Colony of New South Wales to father, Doctor Charles Abbott and mother Susanna (née Beitsch). The Beitsch family came to Sydney from Schriesheim Germany per Boomerang (ship) and Yarra Yarra (ship) in 1855.
Abbott was first elected to the South Australian Parliament in 1933 and again in 1939. In 1944, Abbott was appointed as the State's Attorney-General and Ministries of Education, Employment and Industry, and resigned his Ministries in April 1946, before his eventual resignation from the Parliament in May 1946.
Following Abbott's resignation from the South Australian Parliament in 1946, he was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia and continued in that role until his retirement in 1959.
Abbott married to Gladys Rose DeLaney in Adelaide, where they had three children:
He served as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of South Australia from 1950 to 1959. and was made a Knight Bachelor in the January 1960 New Year Honours by Queen Elizabeth II.