George Abercromby, 2nd Baron Abercromby (14 October 1770 – 15 February 1843) was a Scottish

Scottish people

The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...

 lawyer, politician and peer

Peerage

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. The eldest son of Lt.-Gen. Sir Ralph Abercromby

Ralph Abercromby

Sir Ralph Abercromby was a Scottish soldier and politician. He rose to the rank of lieutenant-general in the British Army, was noted for his services during the Napoleonic Wars, and served as Commander-in-Chief, Ireland.He twice served as MP for Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire, and was...

 and Mary Abercromby, 1st Baroness Abercromby, he became, like his grandfather, a lawyer, and was called to the Bar

Call to the bar

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 in 1794. On his death in 1843 he was succeeded in the barony by his son

George Abercromby, 3rd Baron Abercromby

George Ralph Campbell Abercromby, 3rd Baron Abercromby was a Scottish soldier, politician and peer. The son of George Abercromby, 2nd Baron Abercromby and Hon. Montague Dundas, on his death in 1852 he was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son.-Career:He was commissioned into the 51st Foot...

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Career

He was a Whig

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 Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Edinburgh

Edinburgh (UK Parliament constituency)

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, 1805–1806; and for Clackmannanshire

Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire (UK Parliament constituency)

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, 1806–1807 and 1812–1815. On the death of his mother on 11 February 1821 he succeeded to the title of 2nd Baron Abercromby

Baron Abercromby

Baron Abercromby, of Aboukir and of Tullibody in the County of Clackmannan, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 28 May 1801 for Mary, Lady Abercromby, in honour of her late husband, the noted military commander Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Abercromby, who died from...

. He also inherited the estate of Airthrey

Airthrey Castle

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 from his uncle, Robert Abercromby of Airthrey

Robert Abercromby of Airthrey

General Sir Robert Abercromby GCB , the youngest brother of Sir Ralph Abercromby, was a general in the army, a knight of the Bath, and at one period the governor of Bombay and commander-in-chief of the British forces in India.-Military career:...

, in 1827. He was Lord Lieutenant of Stirlingshire

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, 1837–1843 and, despite his age and illness, greeted Queen Victoria on her progress through Scotland in 1842. Upon his death, he was buried at Tullibody

Tullibody

Tullibody is a town set in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies north of the River Forth near to the foot of the Ochil Hills within the Forth Valley. The town is south-west of Alva, north-west of Alloa and east-northeast of Stirling...

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Family

He married Hon. Montague Dundas, daughter of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville

Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville

Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville PC and Baron Dunira was a Scottish lawyer and politician. He was the first Secretary of State for War and the last person to be impeached in the United Kingdom....

 and Elizabeth Rennie, in Edinburgh on 25 January 1799 and had issue:

• George Ralph Campbell Abercromby, 3rd Baron Abercromby
  George Abercromby, 3rd Baron Abercromby
  George Ralph Campbell Abercromby, 3rd Baron Abercromby was a Scottish soldier, politician and peer. The son of George Abercromby, 2nd Baron Abercromby and Hon. Montague Dundas, on his death in 1852 he was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son.-Career:He was commissioned into the 51st Foot...
  
   (1800–1852)
• Hon. Montague Abercromby (1807–1853), married Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie
  Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie
  Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie KT, GCB, PC , known as Fox Maule before 1852, as The Lord Panmure between 1852 and 1860 and as Earl of Dalhousie after 1860, was a British politician.-Background:...
  
   (1831)
• Hon. Mary Ann Abercromby (1811–1898), married Col. N.R. Brown (1857)

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