Sir Robert Abercromby

(1740-1827)

BIRTH

October 21, 1740

PLACE

unknown

DEATH

November 3, 1827

PLACE

Stirling, Scotland

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Robert Abercromby (1740–1827) was a British Army officer whose American Revolutionary service included Long Island, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Charleston, and Yorktown. At Yorktown he commanded part of Cornwallis’s defenses before the surrender in 1781. He later governed Bombay and held senior commands in India during campaigns against Mysore. Returning to Scotland, he bought Airthrey Castle near Stirling. He was the younger brother of General Ralph Abercromby.

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EARLY LIFE

Robert Abercromby was born on Oct 21, 1740 in unknown. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.

The available biographical record identifies Robert Abercromby with work or public activity as a soldier. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Robert Abercromby died on Nov 3, 1827 in Stirling, Scotland. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.

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DEATH

Robert Abercromby was a British Army officer whose American Revolutionary service included Long Island, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Charleston, and Yorktown. At Yorktown he commanded part of Cornwallis’s defenses before the surrender in 1781. Returning to Scotland, he bought Airthrey Castle near Stirling. Robert Abercromby died on Nov 3, 1827 in Stirling, Scotland. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.