Henry Richard Abadie

Major-General Henry Richard Abadie CB (25 March 1841 – 9 May 1915) was a British Army officer. He was GOC Eastern District at the end of the 19th century and the Lieutenant Governor of Jersey for four years thereafter.

Henry Richard Abadie
A portrait of H. R. Abadie, by John St Helier Lander, 1904
Born25 March 1841
Died9 May 1915 (1915-05-10) (aged 74)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
RankMajor General
Commands heldEastern District
Battles/wars1868 Expedition to Abyssinia
Second Anglo-Afghan War
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath

Background

Abadie was the son of Louis Pascal Abadie, who came from Chateau de Pellepoix in France.[1] He was married first to Kate Sandeman and following her death in 1883 to Caroline, daughter of Colonel Fanshawe Gostling in 1890.[1] His four sons with Kate Sandeman all died while on military service: two in Africa to disease and two during the First World War.[2]

Military career

Abadie joined the army in 1858 and served in the 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia,[3] where he was involved in the Battle of Magdala.[1] He was made a captain 1872 and fought in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, including the Battle of Kandahar in 1880.[3] He was with the 9th Lancers and commanded the Cavalry Depot at Canterbury from 1894 to 1897.[3]

From 1899 to 1900 he commanded Eastern District, during which he was promoted to major-general and awarded a Companion of the Order of the Bath.[3]

Jersey

Thereafter Abadie was appointed the Lieutenant Governor of Jersey, a post he held until 1904.[3] There is a painting of him at his regimental museum in Derby by John St Helier Lander,[4] an artist whom he met while living in Jersey.

References
  1. Who was Who 1897-1916. London: A. & C. Black, Ltd. 1920.
  2. The sons of Kate, Caroline and Henry Abadie, accessed April 2020
  3. C., Buckland (1906). Charles Edward Buckland (ed.). Dictionary of Indian Biography. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. pp. 1. dictionary biography.
  4. Abadie, painting, Derby Museum and Art Gallery, accessed September 2011
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