Herbert Edward Stacy Abbott (6 April 1855 – 13 June 1939) was a British Army officer and an English amateur

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er who made one appearance in first-class cricket. The son of Major-General Herbert Edward Stacy Abbott, he was born in British India at Alipore. He was educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, before attending the

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. Abbott was commissioned into the

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on 17 August 1874, and was sent to India in 1877. He served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War as an assistant engineer. Following the war he was posted to the Punjab where he worked in the Punjab Public Works Department. He was promoted to

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in August 1885 and later served with the Hazara Expedition of 1888, with promotion to

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coming in 1894. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in January 1896 for his actions with the

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Relief Force, and was later promoted to

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in 1901. While briefly back in England in 1902, Abbott played a single first-class cricket match, at the age of 47, for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against London County at Crystal Palace. He returned to India where he became the officiating Chief Engineer of the Public Works Department in the Punjab, 1903–1904, before returning to England to retire in 1906, upon which he was granted the rank of colonel. He was re-employed in 1909 as War Office Inspector of Territorial Buildings and was placed in charge of the

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in Chelsea. His only son was killed in action during the First World War, during which Abbott served in London on special duties. He was made a CBE in the War Honours List of January 1919. He died at

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on 13 June 1939.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Abbott, Herbert 1855 births 1939 deaths Military personnel from Kolkata People educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich Royal Engineers officers British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Afghan War British military personnel of the Hazara Expedition of 1888 British military personnel of the Chitral Expedition Companions of the Distinguished Service Order English cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Military personnel of British India