Brigadier-General Anthony John Abdy CB CBE (26 April 1856 – 4 July 1924) was an English first-class cricketer and an officer in the British Army.
He graduated from there in to the Royal Artillery (RA) as a temporary lieutenant in August 1876,[2] which was made permanent in March the following year.
[15] In April 1913, he was placed on retired pay,[16] but returned to serve with the RA in the First World War, being appointed a temporary brigadier-general in the fourth month of the conflict and attached to headquarters.
[19] Abdy was granted the honorary rank of brigadier-general upon his retirement in June 1918,[20] at which point he was appointed a CBE in the 1918 Birthday Honours.
[1] His nephew, Stuart Bonham Carter, and brother-in-law, Lothian Bonham-Carter, both played first-class cricket.