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[[General (United Kingdom)|General]] '''Sir Robert Abercromby''' ((post-nominals|country=GBR|GCB|)) (21 October 1740((snd))3 November 1827) was a [[British Army]] officer, politician and colonial administrator who served as the [[List of governors of Bombay Presidency|governor of Bombay]] from 1790 to 1792. He also sat in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|British House of Commons]] representing the constituency of [[Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire (UK Parliament constituency)|Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire]] from 1798 to 1802. The youngest brother of Sir [[Ralph Abercromby]], he fought in the [[American Revolutionary War|American War of Independence]] before serving in India as part of the [[Bombay Army]], where he eventually rose to the rank of [[Commander-in-Chief, India]].<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>

==Military career==
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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.

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]].

In 1798 he purchased [[Airthrey Castle]] from the Haldane family and was thereafter entitled Abercromby of Aithrey.

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>

==References==
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==External links==
*[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 ]

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