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About Robert Abercromby of Airthrey
General Sir Robert Abercromby, GCB was a British Army officer, politician and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Bombay from 1790 to 1792. He also sat in the British House of Commons representing the constituency of Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire from 1798 to 1802. The youngest brother of Sir Ralph Abercromby, he fought in the 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.
Everything about Robert Abercromby of Airthrey →- Occupation
- military personnel, politician, soldier
- Position held
- member of the 1st Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 17th Parliament of Great Britain, member of the 18th Parliament of Great Britain
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- October 21, 1740
- Died
- November 3, 1827