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{{Infobox military person<br />
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| name = Robert Abercromby<br />
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| image = George Romney - Colonel Robert Abercrombie - Google Art Project.jpg<br />
| caption = Robert Abercromby painted in 1788 by [[George Romney (painter)|George Romney]]<br />
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[[General (United Kingdom)|General]] '''Sir Robert Abercromby''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|GCB|}} (21 October 1740{{snd}}3 November 1827), the youngest brother of Sir [[Ralph Abercromby]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.nypl.org/mss/6447 |title=Sir Robert Abercromby letter |publisher=[[The New York Public Library Archives & Manuscripts]] |date=1999-02-22 |access-date=2022-08-09}}</ref> was a general in the army, [[Governor of Bombay]] and Commander-in-Chief of the [[Bombay Army]] and then [[Commander-in-Chief, India]], the [[East India Company]].<br />
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He was the son of Prof George Abercromby (1705-1800) of [[Tullibody]] House.<br />
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==Military career==<br />
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Abercromby served in the [[French and Indian War]], and was promoted [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in 1761. On 30 Nov. 1775, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the [[37th Regiment of Foot]]. During the [[American Revolutionary War]], he fought at the [[Battle of Long Island]], the [[Battle of Brandywine]], the [[Battle of Germantown]], the [[Battle of Crooked Billet]], the [[Battle of Monmouth]] and at the sieges of [[Siege of Charleston|Charleston]] and [[Siege of Yorktown|Yorktown]], where he commanded the left wing of the British forces.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/abercromby-sir-robert |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia.com |title= Abercromby, Sir Robert}}</ref> He commanded a battalion of light infantry for most of the war.<br />
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After the war, he was made Colonel for life of the [[75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot|75th (Highland) Regiment]], a regiment newly raised to deter the French in India. Abercromby served in India from 1790 to 1797, where he was [[Governor of Bombay]] and [[Commander-in-Chief]] of the [[Bombay Army]] and then, from 1793, [[Commander-in-Chief, India]].<br />
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In 1798 he purchased [[Airthrey Castle]] from the Haldane family and was thereafter entitled Abercromby of Aithrey.<br />
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He was promoted lieutenant-general in 1797, elected M.P. for the county of [[Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire (UK Parliament constituency)|Clackmannan]] in the place of his brother Ralph in 1798, and was made governor of [[Edinburgh Castle]] in 1801—a post he held until his death—and a general in 1802. His increasing blindness - arising from an eye disease contracted before his return from India in 1797 - made it impossible for him ever again to take active service, and obliged him to resign his seat in parliament in 1802.<ref>[http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1790-1820/member/abercromby-sir-robert-1740-1827 Robert Abercromby] History of Parliament Online article.</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://virtualology.com/sirrobertabercromby/ Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos. Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887–1889 ]<br />
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