George Arbuthnot (politician)

George Arbuthnot of Norton Court (9 January 1836 – 26 December 1912) was a British politician.

Life

Arbuthnot was born on 9 January 1836 in Madras, British India. He was the son of John Alves Arbuthnot of Coworth Park, Old Windsor, Sunningdale, Berkshire, and wife and cousin Mary Arbuthnot. His father was a co-founder of Arbuthnot Latham, a private bank.

Career

Arbuthnot was Member of Parliament for Hereford from 1871 to 1874 and from 1878 to 1880. He served in the Royal Horse Artillery, reaching the rank of colonel, and was Justice of Peace of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, and Deputy Lieutenant for Herefordshire.

Personal life

On 12 October 1870, he married Caroline Emma Nepean Aitchison (1848–1927), daughter of Capt. Andrew Nepean Aitchison, of the 13th Natal Infantry, Honorable East India Company Service, and Frances Matilda Farish (a daughter of James Farish, acting Governor of Bombay). Her paternal grandfather was Major General Andrew Aitchison of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Together, they had six children:

• Frances Muriel Arbuthnot (1871–1933), who married Stephen Karl J. Brichta, son of Philip Brichta, in 1910. After his death in 1929, she married Gilbert Amos Reeve of the Indian Police, in 1929.
• John Bernard Arbuthnot (1875–1950), who married Olive Blake, the only daughter of Sir Henry Arthur Blake and Edith Bernal Osborne (sister of the Duchess of St Albans).
• Dorothy Gertrude Arbuthnot (1878–1957), who married Brig.-Gen. Hugh Frederick Bateman-Champain in 1904.
• Mary Christobel Arbuthnot (b. 1879), who married George Archibald Wallace Young, son of Archibald Young of Wellington House, Lancashire, in 1907. After his death, she married Capt. Alexander Gifford Ludford-Astley of the 14th King's Hussars, son of The Rev. Benjamin Buckler Gifford Ludford-Astley, in 1914. After he was killed in action in Mesopotamia during World War I in 1917, she married Col. Edgar James Brydges, Colonel of the 14th King's Hussars, son of John Henry Brydges of The Court, Eastbourne, Sussex, and of Fedderate, Aberdeenshire, in 1922.
• Hugh Archibald Arbuthnot (1885–1950), who married Mabel Eleanor Jackson, daughter of Henry Jackson, in 1917. They divorced in 1928 and he married Margaret Anne Reid, daughter of comedian Andrew Reid, in 1928.
• Ronald George Urquhart Arbuthnot (1891–1918), a Lieutenant of the 16th Lancers and in the Royal Air Force who was killed while flying on active service in the First World War.

Arbuthnot died on 26 December 1912. His widow died on 16 March 1927 and was buried with him at Holy Trinity Churchyard, Sunningdale, Berkshire.

Descendants

Through his daughter Mary, he was a grandfather of Peter Leslie Young, who married Pamela Clare Gaitskell, Doreen Duff, and Joan Laing (formerly Barnes and Richardson), and was the great-grandfather of Michael Arbuthnot Young (b. 1930), who married Susanna Elizabeth Barclay (daughter of Theodore David Barclay, Chairman of Barclays Bank).

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