Regency Personalities Series-Mary Abercromby

Regency Personalities Series

In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of the many period notables.

Mary Abercromby

1752 – 11 February 1821

Mary Anne was the daughter of John Menzies and Ann, daughter of Patrick Campbell. She was created suo jure 1st Baroness Abercromby, of Aboukir and of Tullibody, in the County of Clackmannanshire, by Letters Patent on 28 May 1801. The barony was awarded in recognition of her late husband’s gallantry at the Battle of Alexandria, at which he was mortally wounded. On her death in 1821 she was succeeded in the barony by George, her eldest son.

She married Captain Ralph Abercromby (later Lt.-Gen. Sir Ralph Abercromby), son of George Abercromby and Mary Dundas, on 17 November 1767 They had children:

Hon. Anne Abercromby (d.1844)
Hon. Mary Abercromby (d.1825)
Hon. Catherine Abercromby (d.1841)
George Abercromby, 2nd Baron Abercromby (1770–1843)
Gen. Hon. Sir John Abercromby (1772-1817)
James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline (1776–1858)
Lt.-Col. Hon. Alexander Abercromby (1784–1853)