Memoir of the life of the much-lamented Lieutenant-General Sir R. Abercromby / [Sir Ralph Abercromby].

  • Ralph Abercromby
Date:
1801
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Credit: Memoir of the life of the much-lamented Lieutenant-General Sir R. Abercromby / [Sir Ralph Abercromby]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sir Ralph Abercrcmby was of a very an¬ cient and diftinguifhed family in North- Rritain, poiTefled of an eiiate bearing the fame name. His father had a numerous family, and according to the cufiom of the country which gave them birth, the Tons were deftined for adtive employments** Each , \ •f Thus we find one of-the brothers of Sir Ralph brought up to the law, another to maritime purfuits, and two more to a military, life.. The fer.ior filled, with great reputation-to his character, the honour¬ able office of a Lord of SefTion, in, which he died.*— The next brother ente.-ed into the fea-fervice cf the ' i EaftTndia Company, and made feveral voyages as a Commander in one of their mips, retiring from the fatigues cf duty, with a wife he had married in India, and with a confiderabie fortune. He died in the year 1792 ; and, to thefurprize of the world, and the difappoiritment of his neareft relations, left aimed the whole of his property to his lady, who was married foon after to her folieitor, but farvived that connexion only a fhoit time. From the na¬ ture of her will,_ihe lafl hope of the Captain’s rela¬ tions was extinguifhed. The Conveyancer had, in one fhort trip to the land of Matrimony, poffeffed himfelf of all which the indefatigable navigator had amafled in his feveral voyages acrofs the Pacific and Indian Oceans. But as no part of the family could be
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