Arbuthnot (surname)
Arbuthnot or Arbuthnott is a Scottish surname, deriving from the village in Scotland from where members of the Arbuthnot family originated.[1]
People with the surname Arbuthnot or Arbuthnott
- Multiple people
- Alexander Arbuthnot (disambiguation)
- Arbuthnot baronets
- Charles Arbuthnot (disambiguation)
- George Arbuthnot (disambiguation)
- Hugh Arbuthnot (disambiguation)
- Keith Arbuthnot (disambiguation)
- John Arbuthnot (disambiguation)
- Robert Arbuthnot (disambiguation)
- Thomas Arbuthnot (disambiguation)
- Viscount of Arbuthnott
- William Arbuthnot (disambiguation)
- Persons
- Barbara Arbuthnott (1822-1904), British benefactor
- Betty Arbuthnott, Scottish fencer
- C. M. Arbuthnot, American physician and founder Arbuthnot Drug Company
- Eric Arbuthnot, South African cricketer
- Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot (1833–1901), British Orientalist and translator
- Gary Arbuthnot (born 1972), Irish flautist
- Geoffrey Arbuthnot (1885–1957), British naval officer during World War I, later Fourth Sea Lord
- Gerald Archibald Arbuthnot (1872–1916), British soldier and politician, MP from Burnley
- Harriet Arbuthnot (1793–1834), English diarist, social observer, and political hostess
- James Arbuthnot (born 1952), British politician and MP
- James Arbuthnot (wrestling coach), Oregon State Beavers
- Lionel Gough Arbuthnot, English cricketer
- Malcolm Arbuthnot (1877–1967), British pictorialist photographer and artist
- Mariot Arbuthnot (1711–1794), British admiral during the American Revolutionary war
- May Hill Arbuthnot (1884–1969), American educator, writer, and editor
- Michael Arbuthnot, American archaeologist and film-maker
- Reginald Arbuthnot, English cricketer
- Fictional
- Sandy Arbuthnot, character in books in the Richard Hannay series by John Buchan
- Colonel Arbuthnot, character in Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
- Freddie Arbuthnot, character in the Bertie Wooster stories of P. G. Wodehouse
- Mrs. Arbuthnot, character in the play A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
- Frederick Arbuthnot, character in the book The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
- Mrs. Arbuthnot, character in the movie Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Dan Ireland, based on the novel by Elizabeth Taylor
- Freddy Arbuthnot, character in Lord Peter Wimsey stories by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Fredericka "Freddy" Arbuthnot, character in several books by Gregory Mcdonald.
- Non-human
- Arbuthnot was the name of the deceased cat of Ann Widdecombe, the former MP
References
- Sims, Clifford Stanley (1862). The Origin and Signification of Scottish Surnames. With a Vocabulary of Christian Names. Albany, New York: J. Munsell. p. 13. OCLC 1060940902 – via Internet Archive.
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