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ARBUTHNOT, CHARLES GEORGE JAMES, eldest son of Charles Arbuthnot (adm. 1780, qv) and his first wife; b. at sea on board frigate HMS Juno 1801; adm. 9 Sep 1811; in school list Apr 1815; Page of Honour to Prince Regent 13 Mar 1812 - Jan 1817; Ensign and Lieut., 1st Foot Guards 26 Dec 1816; Lieut., 11th Light Dragoons 3 Dec 1818; Capt., 28th Foot 16 Mar 1820; Maj., half pay, unattached 3 Jul 1823; 63rd Foot 26 Feb 1824; Lieut. -Col., half pay, unattached 1 Oct 1825; 72nd Foot 25 Sep 1826; 90th Foot 17 May 1831; Col. in the Army 28 Jun 1838; Maj. -Gen. 11 Nov 1851; Lieut. -Gen. 13 Mar 1858; Gen. 25 Nov 1864; Col., 91st Foot 4 Jul 1864; Col., 72nd Foot 27 Aug 1870; MP Tregony 1831 - Feb 1832; of Woodford House, Thrapstone, Northamptonshire; JP Northamptonshire; m. 14 Aug 1833 Hon. Charlotte Eliza Vivian, dau. of Richard, 1st Baron Vivian GCB GCH, Lieut. -Gen. in the Army; d. 21 Oct 1870.

ARBUTHNOT, CHARLES, brother of George Arbuthnot (Min. Can. 1719, qv); bapt. St. Martin in the Fields 26 Mar 1704 (IGI); in under school list 1715; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1719; KS (Capt. ) 1720; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1724, matr. 5 Jun 1724, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1724 - death; BA 1728; MA 1731; adm. Inner Temple 10 Nov 1725; severely wounded in a duel at Oxford by Michael Ferrebee (qv), his rival in a love affair; they were both made to ask pardon publicly in Hall, and were admonished by their college not to offend again, 20 Jun 1726; alluded to in Pope’s Essay on Man, 4th Epistle, lines 105-6; ordained (Dublin) 1730; contributed some verses of his own to a new edition of his father’s Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures, 1727; d. 1 Dec 1731.

ARBUTHNOT, CHARLES, brother of George Arbuthnot (adm. 1774, qv); b. Mar 1767; adm. 13 Jan 1780; left 1784; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 Jun 1784; BA 1788; DCL 1834; brought up by his great-uncle Andrew Stone (qv); Grand Tour 1788-9; precis writer, Foreign Office Sep 1793 - Mar 1795; MP East Looe 27 Mar 1795 - 1796; Secretary to Embassy, Sweden 1795-9, chargé d’affaires Jul 1795 - Jan 1797; on extraordinary mission to Wurttemberg Feb - May 1798; Consul-General, Portugal 1800-1; Envoy Extraordinary to Sweden Sep 1802 - Oct 1803; Under-Secretary, Foreign Office Nov 1803 - Jun 1804; Ambassador Extraordinary at Constantinople 1804-7; Privy Councillor 27 Jun 1804; MP Eye 18 Apr 1809 - 1812, Orford 1812-8, St. Germans 1818 - Jun 1827, St. Ives 10 Jun 1828 - 1830, Ashburton 1830 - Feb 1831; Joint Secretary to the Treasury Apr 1809- Feb 1823, managing parliamentary business and patronage; First Commissioner of Woods and Forests Feb 1823- Apr 1827, Feb - Jun 1828; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Jun 1828- Nov 1830; the Duke of Wellington’s partiality for his second wife drew him into the Duke’s inner circle of friends, and after his wife’s death he took up residence with the Duke as his confidential friend and adviser m. 1st, 23 Feb 1799 Marcia Mary Ann, dau. of William Clapcott Lisle, Upwey, Dorset; m. 2nd, 31 Jan 1814 Harriet, third dau. of Hon. Henry Fane MP, Fulbeck, Lincs.; d. 18 Aug 1850. DNB.

ARBUTHNOT, GEORGE, elder son of John Arbuthnot MD FRS FRCP, London, Physician in Ordinary to Queen Anne, and Margaret --- (IGI); b. 1703; in under school list 1715; Min. Can. (aged 15) 1719; apprenticed to Matthew Hutton, Remembrancer in the Court of Exchequer 20 May 1720; an attorney, or sworn clerk, in the Exchequer from 1726; Second Secondary, Remembrancer’s Office, by 1748 (Chamberlayne 1748), First Secondary, from 1751; one of the executors of the will of Alexander Pope; his melancholy temperament is contrasted with his father’s cheerfulness by Erasmus Lewis (qv) in a letter to Swift (W. Elwin, ed., Pope’s Works, vii, 486, n. 2); d. 8 Sep 1779.

ARBUTHNOT, GEORGE, son of John Arbuthnot, Rockfleet Castle, Co. Mayo, Inspector under the Irish Linen Board, and his third wife Anne, dau. of Richard Stone, London, banker; b. 24 Jul 1764; adm. 27 Sep 1774; left 1777; Writer EICS Bengal 1 Oct 1781; present at OWW dinner at Calcutta 1783 (Hickey, iii, 245); Collector of Tirhoot 1793; Judge and Magistrate, Tirhoot 1795, Benares 1803; resigned 1805; one of the donors of the Warren Hastings Cup; m. 20 Feb 1796 Elizabeth Millicent, third dau. of Maj. -Gen. Horton Briscoe, EICS Bengal; d. during his passage to England in the Lady Jane Dundas 5 Sep 1805.

ARBUTHNOT, GEORGE, son of Lieut. -Gen. Sir Robert Arbuthnot KCB, and his first wife Susan, only child of Col. William Vesey, Farmhill, Co. Mayo; b. 20 Nov 1802; adm. 16 Sep 1816 (Packharness'); left 1820; Junior Clerk, Treasury 18 Jul 1820 -32; Assistant Clerk 12 Oct 1832-50; Senior Clerk 22 Mar - 12 Nov 1850; Private Secretary to successive Parliamentary Secretaries to Treasury Mar 1823 - Feb 1838, to Assistant Secretary of Treasury Feb 1838 - Feb 1843, to Sir Robert Peel as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury Feb 1843 - Jul 1846, and to Sir Charles Wood as Chancellor of the Exchequer Jul 1846 - Feb 1850; Auditor of the Civil List from 12 Nov 1850; Secretary to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners; m. 1st, 29 Apr 1829 Augusta Amelia Adolphina, youngest dau. of Christopher Papendiek, Kew, Surrey; m. 2nd, 28 Sep 1857 Louisa Anne, second dau. of Lieut. -Gen. Sir Richard Jones KCB; d. 28 Jul 1865. DNB.

ARBUTHNOT, HENRY, second son of Charles Arbuthnot (adm. 1780, qv), and his first wife; b. 18 Oct 1803; adm. 10 Jan 1815 (Packharness'); left 1820; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 13 Dec 1821; Cornet, Royal Horse Guards 22 Jun 1820, retd. 14 Oct 1824; a Commissioner for Auditing the Public Accounts 7 Dec 1826 – May 1865; m. 30 Apr 1830 Lady Charlotte Rachel Scott, dau. of Thomas Scott, 2nd Earl of Clonmell (I); d. 24 Jun 1875.

ARBUTHNOTT, DAVID, third son of Hon. David Arbuthnott CSI, EICS Madras, Paignton, Devon, and Eliza, second dau. of Thomas Forbes Reynolds MD, Wallington, Surrey; b. 20 Mar 1856; adm. 21 Jan 1870 (G); left Dec 1873; RMC Sandhurst; Lieut., 77th Foot 10 Mar 1875; 67th Foot 11 Oct 1876; d. of cholera at Cumbrun, Karnool district, Madras, while out tiger shooting 6 Sep 1878.