Sir Ralph Abercromby

(1734-1801)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Abercromby, Ralph, Sir, 1734-1801 NRA: Abercromby, Sir Ralph (1734-1801) Knight, General DNB: Abercromby, Sir Ralph, of Tullibody (1734-1801), army officer LBT ID: RaAberc1801 VIAF ID: 5736544 LOC ID: n87933789	B/BAP: 1734-10 DIED: 1801-03-28
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The son of George Abercromby (1705-1800); he was an MP and major-general in the British Army who defeated the French at Abu Qir near Alexandria, where he died of his wounds.
REFERENCES TO Sir Ralph Abercromby: Robert Southey to Margaret Southey, [October 1800?] in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 22 June 1815 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VII 1792-96 Found 1: ¶ 21 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. VII. 1800-1801 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 16: John Trotter Found 1: ¶ 6 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. III: 1805 Found 3: ¶ n1 ¶ 8 ¶ n1 Ch. VI: 1827-28 Found 1: ¶ n1 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter III: 1815 Found 1: ¶ n1 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) SIR SIDNEY SMITH Found 1: ¶ 15 Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ 5