Thomas Arbuthnot
Sir Thomas Arbuthnot | |
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| Born | 11 September 1776 Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath |
Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, KCB (11 September 1776 – 26 January 1849[1]) was a British Army
commander.
Military career
He was born in
John Arbuthnot, Sr of Rockfleet.[1]
He entered the 8th West India Regiment in June 1798.[2] He then joined the Quarter-master General's department and served under Sir John Moore on the Peninsula from May 1803.[2]
Arbuthnot was promoted to major in the
the Prince Regent in February 1812, promoted to brevet colonel in June 1814 and appointed a Knight of the Order of the Bath
in 1815.
Promoted to
major-general in May 1825, Arbuthnot was sent next year to Portugal in command of a brigade. He afterwards commanded a district in Ireland, and having attained the rank of lieutenant-general in June 1838, was appointed, in 1842, to the command of the Northern and Midland Districts in England, which command he retained until his death.[2]
He also served as colonel in turn of the
71st Highlanders from February 1848.[2]
He died unmarried at his residence in The Crescent,
Salford
.
Family
He was brother of General Sir Robert Arbuthnot, KCB and Charles Arbuthnot and bishop Alexander Arbuthnot. He was uncle of Sir
George Bingham Arbuthnot and Lieutenant General Sir Charles George Arbuthnot
.
References
- Arbuthnot, Mrs P S-M (1920). Memories of the Arbuthnots. George Allen & Unwin.
- Sir James Balfour Paul, ed. (1908). The Scots Peerage. founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's 'Peerage of Scotland'.