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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 James    
Year of Birth  1807    
Year of Death  1896    
Entry  Brother of Sir F. Abbott : born March 12, 1807 : educated at Blackheath and Addiscombe : entered the Royal Artillery in 1823 : arrived in India, 1823 : served at Bhartpur, 1825-6 : in the Revenue Survey : with the Army of the Indus in 1838-9, to Kandahar : in 1839, with D' Arcy Todd to Herat, and sent by him to Khiva to negotiate with the Khan for the release of Russian captives held by him : on the Khan's behalf crossed the Caspian, and went to St. Petersburg and on to England, 1840 : after some political employ, he was Commissioner of Hazara from 1845 to 1853, and held the country against the Sikhs in the second Sikh War, 1848-9: his name is preserved in the town of Abbottabad ; commanded a column in the Black Mountain expedition, 1852 : C. B., 1873 : K. C. B., 1894 : General, 1877 : retired from the Army, 1879 : died Oct. 6, 1896. He was also a ""poet, antiquarian and a man of letters"" ; wrote a narrative of a journey from Herat to Khiva, Moscow and St. Petersburg, etc., and about Alexander the Great in the Panjab, etc.     
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