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Major-General Augustus Abbott (7 January 1804 – 25 February 1867) was an army officer in the British East India Company. He was the eldest of several prominent brothers. He served in various military campaigns including the First Anglo-Afghan War. He died at Cheltenham, to which he had retired, having been discharged from the army due to poor health. ==Early life== Augustus Abbott was born in London and baptised on 10 March 1804 at St Pancras Old Church, the eldest son of Henry Alexius Abbott, a retired Calcutta merchant of Blackheath, Kent,〔Biog. Of Henry Alexius Abbot per the obituaries of his prominent sons〕 and his wife Margaret Welsh, the daughter of William Welsh of Edinburgh. He had the following siblings: * Margaret (1801–1877) * Major General Sir Frederick Abbott, CB (1805–1892): also an officer in the East India Company * General Sir James Abbott, KCB (1807–1896) * Emma Abbott (1809–1875) * Major General Saunders Alexius Abbott (1811–1894), Major General in the Bengal Army; agent at Lahore for the Sind, Punjab and Delhi Railway, from 1863 and subsequently a home director.〔''The Dictionary of National Biography: the Concise Dictionary''. London: Oxford University Press, 1939; p. 2〕 * Keith Edward Abbott, Consul General (1814–1873) * Edmund Abbott (1816–1816) Augustus was educated at Winchester College, and at the East India Company's military seminary at Addiscombe (1818–19) where he trained as an officer cadet. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Augustus Abbott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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