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{{short description|British military officer (1784–1873)}}<br />
{{Infobox military person<br />
| honorific_prefix = General<br />
| name = Sir Abraham Roberts<br />
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCB}}<br />
| image = Abraham Roberts - Project Gutenberg eText 16528.jpg<br />
| caption = Sir Abraham Roberts<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1784|04|11|df=yes}}<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1873|12|28|1784|04|11|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Waterford]], [[Kingdom of Ireland]]<br />
| death_place = <br />
| nickname = <br />
| allegiance = {{flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}}<br />
| branch = [[British East India Company]]<br />
| serviceyears = <br />
| rank = [[General (United Kingdom)|General]]<br />
| unit = [[101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers)|1st Bengal European Regiment]]<br />
| commands = [[101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers)|1st Bengal European Regiment]]<br>[[Lahore Division]]<br />
| battles = [[First Afghan War]]<br />
| awards = [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]]<br />
| relations = [[Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts]] (son)<br>[[Frederick Roberts (British Army officer, born 1872)|Frederick Roberts]] (grandson)<br />
| laterwork = <br />
}}<br />
[[General (United Kingdom)|General]] '''Sir Abraham Roberts''' (11 April 1784 – 28 December 1873) was a British [[East India Company]] Army [[General (United Kingdom)|general]] who served nearly 50 years in [[British Raj|India]].<br />
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Roberts had two sons, who both obtained the highest ranks in the [[British Army]]. One son and a grandson would win the [[Victoria Cross]], the highest decoration for bravery in the face of the enemy in the British Army.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
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Abraham Roberts was a member of a famous [[Waterford (city)|Waterford]] family. He was the son of Anne (Sandys) and [[The Reverend]] John Roberts, a [[magistrate]] in [[County Waterford]] and a rector of [[Passage East]].<br />
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==Career==<br />
General Sir Abraham Roberts gained the rank of colonel in the service of the [[Honourable East India Company]] and was the commander of the [[101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers)|1st Bengal European Regiment]] and the [[Lahore Division]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Lord Roberts - A Great Soldier's Story of his Own Career |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1897/01/16/archives/lord-roberts-a-great-soldiers-story-of-his-own-career-in-india-and.html |work=The New York Times |date=16 January 1897 |access-date=23 April 2010}}</ref> He fought in the [[First Afghan War]].<br />
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Roberts was invested as a [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]] (GCB). He left India in 1853 to live in [[Ireland]] with his second wife, who outlived him. He also had a home in [[Bristol]], 25 Royal York Crescent, Bristol, Somerset BS8 – England.<ref>{{cite web |title=Will on Genealogy.com |url=https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/j/o/l/Janine-Jol/GENE6-0002.html |access-date=8 January 2023 |quote=This is the last Will of me, General Sir Abraham Roberts KGB. of number 25 Royal York & Crescent Clifton Bristol. I bequeath unto and equally between my dearest Wife, Isabella Roberts and mu Daughter, Harriet Mercer Roberts […]}}</ref><br />
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From 1862 until his death, he was Colonel of the [[101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers)]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/101-862.htm |title=101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers) |publisher=regiments.org |access-date=17 August 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060330133039/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/101-862.htm |archive-date=30 March 2006 }}</ref><br />
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==Family==<br />
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He married Frances Isabella Ricketts, daughter of George Poyntz Ricketts, on 20 July 1820. On the death of his first wife, he married Isabella Bunbury, daughter of Abraham Bunbury, on 2 August 1830. <br />
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===Children with Frances Isabella Ricketts===<br />
*Frances Eliza Roberts<br />
*Maria Isabella Roberts<br />
*Major General George Ricketts Roberts<br />
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===Children with Isabella Bunbury===<br />
*Harriet Mercer Roberts<br />
*Field Marshal [[Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts|Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts]]<br />
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==Arms==<br />
{{Infobox COA wide<br />
|image = Sir Abraham Roberts Escutcheon.png<br />
|escutcheon = Azure three estoiles Or on a chief wavy of the second an Eastern crown Gules.<br />
|crest = A lion rampant Or armed and langued Gules charged on the shoulder with an Eastern crown of the last and holding in the dexter paw a sword the blade wavy Argent hilt and pommel Gold.<br />
|motto = Virtute Et Valore<br />
|notes = Confirmed by [[John Bernard Burke]], [[Ulster King of Arms]], 27 June 1865.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000529194 |page=111 |publisher=National Library of Ireland |access-date=14 January 2023 |title=Grants and Confirmations of Arms Vol. G|date=1863 }}</ref>}}<br />
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==Footnotes==<br />
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[[Category:Military personnel from County Waterford]]<br />
[[Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]]<br />
[[Category:British East India Company Army generals]]<br />
[[Category:British military personnel of the First Anglo-Afghan War]]<br />
[[Category:19th-century Anglo-Irish people]]<br />
[[Category:1784 births]]<br />
[[Category:1873 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Irish soldiers in the British East India Company Army]]<br />
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