Robert Abercromby of Airthrey

Sir Robert Abercromby
Robert Abercromby painted in 1788 by George Romney
Born	1740
Died	1827 (aged 86–87)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	General
Commands held	Bombay Army Indian Army
Battles/wars	French and Indian War American Revolutionary War Third Anglo-Mysore War
Awards	Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath

General Sir Robert Abercromby GCB (21 October 1740 – 3 November 1827), the youngest brother of Sir Ralph Abercromby, was a general in the army, a knight of the Bath, and at one period the Governor of Bombay and Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army and then Commander-in-Chief, India.

Abercromby served in the French and Indian War, and was promoted captain in 1761. In 1773, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the 37th Regiment of Foot. During the American Revolutionary War, he fought at the Battle of Long Island, the Battle of Brandywine, the Battle of Germantown, the Battle of Crooked Billet, the Battle of Monmouth and at the sieges of Charleston and Yorktown, where he commanded the left wing of the British forces. He commanded a battalion of light infantry for most of the war.

After the war, he was made Colonel for life of the 75th (Highland) Regiment, a regiment newly raised to deter the French in India. Abercromby served in India from 1790–1797, where he was Governor of Bombay and Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army and then, from 1793, Commander-in-Chief, India.