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John Henry MacCartney Abbott (1874-1953) was an Australian author, who was educated at The King's School. In 1900 he left for the South African war as a corporal in the 1st Australian Horse and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery. He wrote for several journals such as the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator. His works include: Tommy Cornstalk (1902), Plain and Veldt (1903), An Outlander in England: Being Some Impressions of an Australian Abroad (1905), Letters From Queer Street (1908), The South Seas (Melanesia) (1908), The Sign of the Serpent (1909), The Story of William Dampier (1911), The Governor's Man (1919), Castle Vane: A Romance of the Bushranging on the Upper Hunter in the Olden Days (1920), Ensign Calder (1922), Sydney Cove (1923), Dogsnose (1928), The King's School and Other Tales for Old Boys (1931), Ben Hall (1934), The Newcastle Packets and the Hunter Valley (1943), Out of the Past (1944) and Red O'Shaugnessy (1946).
