Herbert Edward Stacy Abbott
Major-General Herbert Edward Stacy Abbott (19 November 1814 – 1883) was an officer in the armies of the East India Company and British Crown in India, under colonial rule. Background and education
Abbott was the son of George Edward Abbott (died 1822) and Ann (or Anna) Maria Stacy, who married in India. He had an older sister, Marianne Sarah Abbott (1808–1887), who married Charles Scott Hadow. Abbott's father was the Head Assistant in the Calcutta General Post Office. while his mother was the daughter of the Reverend Henry Peter Stacy (born c.1760), who was believed to have been chaplain at Danapur. An image of Reverend H. P. Stacy is in the Manchester Art Gallery. Abbott was educated at Addiscombe Military Seminary from 1829 to 1831, from where he joined the 74th Native Infantry. 