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{{Infobox military person
|name= Edgar Abraham
|birth_name = Edgar Gaston Furtado Abraham
|birth_date= 8 April 1880
|death_date= {{Death date and age|1955|02|17|1880|04|08|df=yes}}
|birth_place= [[Kingston, Jamaica]]
|death_place= Bridgport, UK
|placeofburial=
|image=
|caption=
|allegiance= {{flagu|United Kingdom|1801|size=23px}}
|serviceyears= 1904–1920
|rank= [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]]
|branch= [[Royal Garrison Artillery]]
|commands=
|unit=
|battles= {{tree list}}
*[[World War I]]
**[[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]]
|awards= [[Order of the Bath]]
}}
Captain '''Edgar Gaston Furtado Abraham''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CB}} (8 April 1880 – 17 February 1955) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[civil servant]] and [[judge]] in [[British India|India]].<ref name="times">{{cite news |title= Obituary: Captain Edgar Abraham |work=[[The Times]] |date=22 February 1955 |page= 10}}</ref>

Abraham was born in [[Kingston, Jamaica]] to Jewish parents John Furtado Abraham, a merchant, and Jeanne Lucie Dreyfus, anglicised to Jane Lucy.<ref>''Jamaica, Civil Registration Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1878–1930''</ref> His father was from a Sephardic family of Portuguese Jews<ref>''The JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry''</ref> while his mother was from Paris.<ref name="1881census">''1881 England Census''</ref><ref>''Paris, France & Vicinity, Births, 1700–1899''</ref> He was educated at [[St Paul's School, London]] and [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford]]. He joined the [[Indian Civil Service]] in 1904, serving in the [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]] throughout his career. On the outbreak of the [[First World War]] in 1914, he returned to Britain to be commissioned into the [[Royal Garrison Artillery]], serving on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]] and reaching the rank of [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]]. In January 1918, he was seconded to the [[War Cabinet]] as an Assistant Secretary and four months later was sent to the [[Versailles Conference]], where he served until 1920. For these services he was appointed [[Companion of the Order of the Bath]] (CB) in the [[1920 New Year Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=31712 |date=30 December 1919 |page=4 |supp=y}}</ref>

Returning to India, he served successively as Deputy Commissioner of the Punjab, Home Secretary of the Punjab, and as a Sessions Judge.

A member of the [[New Commonwealth Society]], he was one of those who presented plans for a multinational "world security force" in [[London]] in 1949.<ref>"World Security Force", ''[[The Times]]'', 29 April 1949</ref>

He died at his home near Bridgport in 1955.<ref name="times"/>

==References==
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== Notes ==

* [[doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U233875|Abraham's entry]] in ''[[Who's Who (UK)|Who's Who]]''

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