Dictionary of Indian Biography/Abbott, Sir Frederick
ABBOTT, SIR FREDERICK (1805–1892)
Brother of Sir James Abbott, and son of Henry Alexius Abbott, a Calcutta merchant: born June 13, 1805: educated at Warfield and Addiscombe: entered Bengal Engineers, 1823: Maj-General, 1858: arrived in India, 1823: in the Burmese war of 1824–26: employed in the P. W. D. and garrison-engineer at Calcutta in 1841: Chief Engineer in Pollock's relieving force in 1842, and at the re-occupation of Kabul: in the first Sikh war and at Sobraon in 1846: directed the bridge and pontoon operations: C. B.: retired in 1847: Lieutenant-Governor of the Addiscombe Military College, 1851–61: knighted, 1854: Member of Council of Military Education, and Commissioner of National Defence: died Nov. 4, 1892.