Son of Sir Ralph Abercromby and early friend of Sir Walter Scott; he was Whig MP for Edinburgh City (1805-06) and Clackmannanshire (1806-07, 1812-15). He succeeded his mother in the peerage in 1821.

REFERENCES TO George Abercromby, second baron Abercromby:

Walter Scott to William Clerk, 10 September 1792 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Thomas Creevey to James Currie, 11 May 1805 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Thomas Creevey to Eleanor Creevey, 17 February 1810 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Henry Brougham to Thomas Creevey, [April?] 1814 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)