Frederick Abbott (Indian Army officer)

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Dorset
, England

Major-General Sir Frederick Abbott

East India Company
.

Background

Frederick was born at Little Court,

Calcutta merchant of Blackheath, Kent,[1]
and his wife Margaret Welsh, the daughter of William Welsh of Edinburgh. He had the following siblings:

Career

After training at

First Anglo-Sikh War in 1846, and took part in the Battle of Sobraon, for which he was awarded a Companion of the Order of the Bath
.

He retired one year later and took over as lieutenant-governor of Addiscombe Seminary in 1851.

knight bachelor in 1854 and was promoted to major-general in 1858.[2] In 1859, he was appointed to serve on the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, whose recommendations prompted a huge programme of fortification for the British naval dockyards.[3]
After the college was closed in 1861, he served on various other royal commissions.

Family

In 1835, he married Frances Cox, da. of Lt.Col. Cox, Royal Artillery, and widow of Lt.Col. Hubert de Burgh.[2] Abbott died in Branksome Park, Poole in 1892.[4] His wife and daughter both predeceased him.

References

Wikisource has the text of the Dictionary of National Biography 1901 supplement's article about Abbott, Frederick.
  1. ^ Dod's Peerage 1860, p.79
  2. ^ a b c d Dod, Robert P. (1860). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co. p. 79.
  3. ISBN 978-0-7153635-3-9
    (p. 20)
  4. ^ Walford, Edward. The County Families of the UK, London, 1891, p.1
  • R. H. Vetch; Rev. Roger T. Stearn (2004). "Abbott, Sir Frederick (1805–1892)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 20 March 2007.
  • Vibart, H.M. (1894). Addiscombe: its heroes and men of note. Westminster: Archibald Constable. pp. 190–200.
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