George Arbuthnot (politician)

Col. George Arbuthnot of Norton Court, Gloucester, DL JP MP (9 January/June 1836 – 26 December 1912) was a British politician.

Born in Madras, India, he was the son of John Alves Arbuthnot of Coworth Park, Old Windsor, Sunningdale, Berkshire, and wife and cousin Mary Arbuthnot.

Arbuthnot was Member of Parliament for Hereford from 1871 to 1874 and from 1878 to 1880. He served in the Royal Horse Artillery, reaching the rank of Colonel, and was Justice of Peace of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, and Deputy Lieutenant for Herefordshire.

He was buried with his wife at Holy Trinity Churchyard, Sunningdale, Berkshire.

On 12 October 1870 he married Caroline Emma Nepean Aitchison (Norwood, London, 1848 – 16 March 1927), daughter of Captain Andrew Nepean Aitchison (Bombay, 13 June 1816, bap. Bombay, 3 August 1816, – Cairo, Egypt, 1 April 1850), 13th Natal Infantry, Honorable East India Company Service, brother of General Charles Terrington Aitchison, and wife (m. Byculla, Bombay, 20 January 1842) Frances Matilda Farish, daughter of James Farish, and paternal granddaughter of Major General Andrew Aitchison of Ryde, Isle of Wight (? – Hastings, East Sussex, 29 February 1848) and wife Martha Charlotte .... They had six children:

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