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 * Article title: Abercromby, Robert (1740-1827)
 * Author: Stephens, Henry Morse
 * LEAD: ABERCROMBY, Sir ROBERT (1740–1827), military commander, was born at Tullibody, his father's seat in Scotland, in 1740, and was a younger brother of the more famous Sir Ralph.
 * Errata: Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.2
 * LEAD: ABERCROMBY, Sir ROBERT (1740–1827), military commander, was born at Tullibody, his father's seat in Scotland, in 1740, and was a younger brother of the more famous Sir Ralph.
 * Errata: Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.2

General

 * For Robert Abercromby's services see the Royal Military Calendar, 1820, vol. i.
 * for the campaigns in Mysore see Cornwallis's Correspondence, published 1861
 * and for his command-in-chief in India the Life of John, Lord Teignmouth, by his son

Cites

 * a private letter of the governor-general, Sir John Shore: "My respect for Sir Robert Abercromby has increased with my knowledge of his character. What he was at Bombay I know not; he has been here mild, conciliatory, and unassuming from the first, and it is only justice to him to declare that a more honourable, upright, and zealous man never served the company. I assure you with great truth that I have ever found him anxious to promote the public good, either by his own efforts or those of others. I certainly do not think his abilities equal to his situation, and there are few men who have abilities equal to it; but I believe that his have been under-estimated, and that his greatest fault is his good nature. He will retire with a very moderate fortune, for money was never his object: he thinks too little of it."