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Edgar Abraham

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to Jewish parents John Furtado Abraham, a merchant, and Jeanne Lucie Dreyfus, anglicised to Jane Lucy. His father was from a Sephardic family of Portuguese Jews while his mother was from Paris. He was educated at
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Returning to India, he served successively as Deputy Commissioner of the Punjab, Home Secretary of the Punjab, and as a Sessions Judge.
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Jamaica, Civil Registration Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1878–1930
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as an Assistant Secretary and four months later was sent to the
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in 1914, he returned to Britain to be commissioned into the
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Index

Kingston, Jamaica
Royal Garrison Artillery
Captain
World War I
Western Front
Order of the Bath
CB
civil servant
judge
India
Kingston, Jamaica
St Paul's School, London
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Indian Civil Service
Punjab
First World War
Royal Garrison Artillery
Western Front
Captain
War Cabinet
Versailles Conference
Companion of the Order of the Bath
1920 New Year Honours
New Commonwealth Society
London


The Times
"No. 31712"
The London Gazette

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