Sir Robert Abercromby

(1740 c.-1827)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Abercromby, Sir Robert (1740-1827) Knight, army officer and administrator in India DNB: Abercromby, Sir Robert (1740?-1827), army officer and administrator in India LBT ID: RoAberc1827	B/BAP: 1740 DIED: 1827-11
SOURCES: DNB; thePeerage.com
Commander-in-chief at Bombay who defeated Tippoo Sultan in 1792, and commander of the British forces in the Rohilla War. He was MP for Clackmannan (1798).
REFERENCES TO Sir Robert Abercromby: Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter VIII Found 1: ¶ Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter X. Found 1: ¶ 24