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 Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C

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Date transcribed2011-01-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Abbott    
First Name(s)  Sir Frederick    
Year of Birth  1805    
Year of Death  1892    
Entry  Brother of Sir James Abbott, and son of Henry Alexius Abbott, a Calcutta merchant : born June 13, 1805 : educated at Warfield and Addiscombe : entered Bengal Engineers, 1823 : Maj-General, 1858 : arrived in India, 1823 : in the Burmese war of 1824-26: employed in the P. W. D. and garrison-engineer at Calcutta in 1841 : Chief Engineer in Pollock's relieving force in 1842, and at the re-occupation of Kabul : in the first Sikh war and at Sobraon in 1846 : directed the bridge and pontoon operations : C. B. : retired in 1847 : Lieutenant- Governor of the Addiscombe Military College, 1851-61 : knighted, 1854 : Member of Council of Military Education, and Commissioner of National Defence : died Nov. 4, 1892.     
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