[3] Abrahams was a graduate of the City of London School and Balliol College at Oxford, which he attended 1892–1898.

[2] Abrahams was the first Jew to hold a position as high as Assistant Under-secretary of State in the British Civil Service.

[3] In the position of Assistant Under-secretary, Abrahams needed to deal with currency and financial issues.

[5]: 193 Shirras describes Abrahams as "a permanent official who served the financial interests of India with conspicuous efficiency and a zeal particularly his own.".

[7] He also wrote "Debts and houses of Jews of Hereford, 1290" which was published in volume one of The Jewish Historical Society of England – Transactions in 1894.