Henry Richard Abadie

Major-General Henry Richard Abadie CB (25 March 1841 – 9 May 1915) was a British Army officer.

He was GOC (General officer commanding) Eastern District at the end of the 19th century and the Lieutenant Governor of Jersey for four years thereafter.

[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] Abadie joined the army in 1858 and served in the 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia,[3] where he was involved in the Battle of Magdala.

[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.