William Reierson Arbuthnot
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Madras
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Early life
William Reierson Arbuthnot was born at 14 Upper Wimpole Street, London, on 28 January 1826 to George
Arbuthnot, of Elderslie, Surrey, and Elizabeth, daughter of Donald Fraser. The Arbuthnots were landowners and merchants of the Haddo-Rattray estate, Aberdeenshire, in Scotland for the previous two generations, and were formerly of Peterhead in that county. George Arbuthnot worked for 22 years (1800–23) as a merchant in Madras, and was a magistrate, before retiring to England and acquiring Elderslie; he also resided at Upper Wimpole Street in London during the winter.[1][2]
Career
Arbuthnot served as a member of the
Chamber of Commerce of Madras. He was also Director of Commercial Union Insurance Co and of the Midland Bank Ltd.[3]
Personal life
On 9 December 1858, Arbuthnot married Mary Helen Anstruther, the eldest daughter of
Colonial Secretary of Ceylon. They lived at Plawhatch, Sussex, and had eight sons and six daughters; one of their sons, Major Kenneth Wyndham Arbuthnot (1873–1915), of the Seaforth Highlanders, was father of the politician Sir John Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet, of Kittybrewster.[4]
References
- ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 113
- ^ Memories of Madras, The Arbuthnots, C. Lawson, 1905, pp. 273-276
- ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 113
- ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 113