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Sir James Abbott (
12 March 1807 –
6 October 1896) was a British army officer in
colonial India. He made a name for himself in the northwest frontier region of India in the middle part of the 19th century. He was one of
Henry Lawrence's
Young Men, 'advisers' to the Sikhs, after the
First Sikh War (1846). He was the first deputy commissioner of
Hazara (1849 - 1853).
As part of the terms of the
Treaty of Lahore signed after the defeat of the Sikhs in the First Sikh War, Hazara and Kashmir were going to be transferred to
Gulab Singh, Hazara however remained under the Lahore government and governed by James Abbott, who pacified it within a year. . The
Pakistani city of
Abbottabad is named after him..
James Abbott was the brother of
Augustus Abbott and
Frederick Abbott
His portrait was created by the artist B. Baldwin. This portrait resides in the
National Portrait Gallery in
London, though it isn't currently on display.
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