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{{short description|English cricketer and British Army officer}}
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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Herbert Abbott
| image =
| country = England
| fullname = Herbert Edward Stacy Abbott
| partialdates =
| birth_date = 6 April 1855
| birth_place = [[Alipore]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]], [[Company rule in India|British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1939|6|13|1855|4|6|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Richmond, London|Richmond]], [[Surrey]], England
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| family =
| batting =
| bowling =
| role =
| international =
| club1 = [[Marylebone Cricket Club]]
| year1 = 1902
| hidedeliveries = true
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 19
| bat avg1 = 9.50
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 18
| catches/stumpings1 = 0/–
| date = 4 April
| year = 2015
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/8647.html Cricinfo
}}

'''Herbert Edward Stacy Abbott''' {{postnominals|CBE|DSO}} (6 April 1855 – 13 June 1939) was a [[British Army]] officer and an English amateur [[cricket]]er who made one appearance in [[first-class cricket]].

The son of Major-General [[Herbert Edward Stacy Abbott]], he was born in [[British India]] at [[Alipore]]. He was educated at [[Elizabeth College, Guernsey]], before attending the [[Royal Military Academy, Woolwich]].<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |last1=Creagh |first1=E.M.H. |last2= O'Moore |title=The Distinguished Service Order 1886–1923|edition=First |year=1978 |publisher=Hayward}}</ref> Abbott was commissioned into the [[Royal Engineers]] on 17 August 1874, and was sent to India in 1877. He served in the [[Second Anglo-Afghan War]] as an assistant engineer.<ref name="BOOK" /> Following the war he was posted to the [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]] where he worked in the Punjab Public Works Department.<ref name="BOOK" /> He was promoted to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in August 1885 and later served with the [[Hazara Expedition of 1888]], with promotion to [[Major (United Kingdom)|major]] coming in 1894.<ref name="BOOK" /> He was awarded the [[Distinguished Service Order]] in January 1896 for his actions with the [[Chitral (princely state)|Chitral]] [[Chitral Expedition#Relief|Relief Force]],<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26701|page=358|date=21 January 1896}}</ref> and was later promoted to [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant colonel]] in 1901.<ref name="BOOK" />

While briefly back in England in 1902, Abbott played a single first-class cricket match, at the age of 47, for [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] (MCC) against [[London County Cricket Club|London County]] at [[Crystal Palace Park Cricket Ground|Crystal Palace]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/27/27389/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Herbert Abbott|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=4 April 2015}}</ref> He returned to India where he became the officiating Chief Engineer of the Public Works Department in the Punjab, 1903–1904, before returning to England to retire in 1906, upon which he was granted the rank of [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|colonel]].<ref name="BOOK" /> He was re-employed in 1909 as War Office Inspector of Territorial Buildings and was placed in charge of the [[Duke of York's Headquarters]] in Chelsea.<ref name="BOOK" /> His only son was killed in action during the [[First World War]], during which Abbott served in London on special duties. He was made a [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] in the War Honours List of January 1919.<ref name="BOOK" />

He died at [[Richmond, London|Richmond]] in [[Surrey]] on 13 June 1939.

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
*{{cricinfo|id=8647}}

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