Major-General Sir Frederick Abbott, CB (13 June 1805 – 4 November 1892) was a British Indian Army officer and engineer of the East India Company.

He had the following siblings: After training at Addiscombe Military Seminary from 1820 to 1822, Abbott was posted to India with the Bengal Engineers in 1823.

Here he was ordered to destroy the great bazaar of Kabul as a retribution for the murder of a British officer, an action he later regretted.

He fought in the First Anglo-Sikh War in 1846, and took part in the Battle of Sobraon, for which he was awarded a Companion of the Order of the Bath.

[2] In 1859, he was appointed to serve on the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, whose recommendations prompted a huge programme of fortification for the British naval dockyards.