APPLEYARD, MATTHEW, son of Jonathan Appleyard, St. Margaret, Westminster; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 15) 1709; St. John’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 3 Jul 1711; BCL 27 Jan 1717/8. [Perhaps m. 13 Aug 1717 Agnes Strickland (IGI)]
APPLIN, ---; b.; in school list 1801.
APPOWELL, ROBERT; b. ; adm. ; KS 1540-4 (Chapter Muniments 6478).
ARBROUGH, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1715/6; in under school list 1717. [note will John Arbrough, St. Martins in the Fields, victualler, proved PCC 4 Apr 1720]
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.