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[[File:Twenty-One Days in India, or, the Tour Of Sir Ali Baba K.C.B. and, the Teapot Series by George Aberigh-Mackay.tif|thumb|The Bengali [[Babu (title)|Baboo]]. ''Twenty-One Days in India'' (1878–1879). The Teapot Series by George Aberigh-Mackay]]
'''George Robert Aberigh-Mackay''' (25 July 1848{{snd}}12 January 1881), [[Anglo-Indian]] writer, was the son of the Reverend James Aberigh-Mackay D.D., B.D. and his first wife Lucretia Livingston née Reed. He was educated at [[Magdalen College School, Oxford]] and St. Catherine's College, Cambridge.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=InFTmnS4crYC&pg=PA1|title=Dictionary of Indian Biography|last=Buckland|first=Charles Edward|date=1906|publisher=S. Sonnenschein|language=en}}</ref> Entering the Indian education department in 1870, he became professor of English literature in Delhi College in 1873, tutor to the [[Raja of Rutlam]] in 1876, and principal of the Rajkumar College at Indore in 1877.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert|volume=1|page=53}}</ref> On 8 January 1881 he developed symptoms of tetanus after playing polo and tennis on the previous 2 days, and died on 12 January 1881 in Indore.

He is best known for his book ''[[Twenty-one Days in India]]'' (1878–1879), a satire upon Anglo-Indian society and modes of thought. This book gave promise of a successful literary career, but the author died at the age of thirty-three.<ref name="EB1911"/> Aberigh-Mackay wrote also an extensive manual giving first-hand data about the [[princely state]]s and their rulers.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/nativechiefsand00macgoog G. R. Aberigh-Mackay, ''The Native Chiefs and Their States in 1877:A Manual of reference.'']</ref>

==Family==
'''George Robert Aberigh-Mackay''' married '''Mary Ann Louisa Cherry''' on 13 October 1873 at Simla, Bengal, India.
'''Children of George Robert Aberigh-Mackay & Mary Ann Louisa Cherry'''
# Mary Livingston (''Miss Patty'') Aberigh-Mackay (1874–1952)
# Frances Lilian Aberigh-Mackay (1875–?)
# Beatrice Georgiana Aberigh-Mackay (1878–1948)
# Katharine Madeline Aberigh-Mackay (1879–1945) married 1st Montague Tharp 2nd James Herbert Everett Evans.

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==References==
*{{cite book|first=Buckland|last=C.|year=1906|title=''Dictionary of Indian Biography''| editor = Charles Edward Buckland| pages= 3| publisher=Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Lim: London|location=Harvard University, Digitized 8 July 2005| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=InFTmnS4crYC&q=dictionary+biography}}

==External links==
* {{Gutenberg author |id=Aberigh-Mackay,+George | name=George Aberigh-Mackay}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=George Robert Aberigh-Mackay}}

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