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|awards= [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]] | |awards= [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]] | ||
|relations= [[Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts]] (son)<br>[[Frederick | |relations= [[Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts]] (son)<br>[[Frederick Roberts (British Army officer)|Frederick Roberts]] (grandson) | ||
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==Early life== | ==Early life== | ||
Abraham Roberts was a member of a famous [[Waterford]] city family. He was the son of Anne Sandys and [[The Reverend]] John Roberts,<ref>{{cite web|title=The peerage |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p24147.htm#i241468}}{{Unreliable source?|failed=y |date=August | Abraham Roberts was a member of a famous [[Waterford]] city family. He was the son of Anne Sandys and [[The Reverend]] John Roberts,<ref>{{cite web|title=The peerage |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p24147.htm#i241468}}{{Unreliable source?|failed=y |date=August 2022}}<!--Lundy is not a reliable source so cite Lundy's reliable source See [[WP:SAYWHEREYOUREADIT]]--></ref> a [[magistrate]] in [[County Waterford]] and a rector of [[Passage East]].{{fact|date=January 2021}} | ||
==Career== | ==Career== | ||
General Sir Abraham Roberts gained the rank of colonel in the service of the [[Honourable East India Company]] and was the commander of the [[101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers)|1st Bengal European Regiment]] and the [[Lahore Division]].<ref>{{cite news|title=ny times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1897/01/16/archives/lord-roberts-a-great-soldiers-story-of-his-own-career-in-india-and.html | work=The New York Times | date=16 January 1897 | accessdate=23 April | General Sir Abraham Roberts gained the rank of colonel in the service of the [[Honourable East India Company]] and was the commander of the [[101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers)|1st Bengal European Regiment]] and the [[Lahore Division]].<ref>{{cite news|title=ny times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1897/01/16/archives/lord-roberts-a-great-soldiers-story-of-his-own-career-in-india-and.html | work=The New York Times | date=16 January 1897 | accessdate=23 April 2022}}</ref> He fought in the [[First Afghan War]]. | ||
Roberts was invested as a [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]] (GCB). He left India in 1853 to live in [[Ireland]] with his second wife, who outlived him.<ref>{{cite web|title=links.org|url=http://www.links.org/links-cgi/readged?/home/ben/camilla-genealogy/current+c-roberts634+2-2-0-1}}{{Dead link|date=September 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He also had a house in [[Bristol]], 25 Royal York Crescent, Bristol, Somerset BS8 – England.<ref>{{cite web|title=Will on Genealogy.com|url=https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/j/o/l/Janine-Jol/GENE6-0002.html}}</ref> | Roberts was invested as a [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]] (GCB). He left India in 1853 to live in [[Ireland]] with his second wife, who outlived him.<ref>{{cite web|title=links.org|url=http://www.links.org/links-cgi/readged?/home/ben/camilla-genealogy/current+c-roberts634+2-2-0-1}}{{Dead link|date=September 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He also had a house in [[Bristol]], 25 Royal York Crescent, Bristol, Somerset BS8 – England.<ref>{{cite web|title=Will on Genealogy.com|url=https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/j/o/l/Janine-Jol/GENE6-0002.html}}</ref> | ||
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==Family== | ==Family== | ||
He married Frances Isabella Ricketts, daughter of George Poyntz Ricketts, on 20 July 1820.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Peerage |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p24147.htm#i241468}}{{Unreliable source?|failed=y |date=August | He married Frances Isabella Ricketts, daughter of George Poyntz Ricketts, on 20 July 1820.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Peerage |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p24147.htm#i241468}}{{Unreliable source?|failed=y |date=August 2022}}<!--Lundy is not a reliable source so cite Lundy's reliable source See [[WP:SAYWHEREYOUREADIT]]--></ref> | ||
On the death of his first wife he married Isabella Bunbury, daughter of Abraham Bunbury, on 2 August 1830.<ref name="the peerage">{{cite web|title=the peerage |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p24147.htm#i241468}}{{Unreliable source?|failed=y |date=August | On the death of his first wife he married Isabella Bunbury, daughter of Abraham Bunbury, on 2 August 1830.<ref name="the peerage">{{cite web|title=the peerage |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p24147.htm#i241468}}{{Unreliable source?|failed=y |date=August 2022}}<!--Lundy is not a reliable source so cite Lundy's reliable source See [[WP:SAYWHEREYOUREADIT]]--></ref> | ||
===Children with Frances Isabella Ricketts=== | ===Children with Frances Isabella Ricketts=== | ||