James Arbuthnot
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The Right Honourable The Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom PC |
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| Chairman of the Defence Select Committee | |
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In office 13 July 2005 – 14 May 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Bruce George |
| Succeeded by | Rory Stewart |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Trade | |
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In office 6 November 2003 – 6 May 2005 |
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| Leader | Michael Howard |
| Preceded by | Tim Yeo (Trade and Industry) |
| Succeeded by | David Willetts (Trade and Industry) |
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Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Commons |
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In office 23 June 1997 – 18 September 2001 |
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| Leader | William Hague |
| Preceded by | Alastair Goodlad |
| Succeeded by | David Maclean |
| Minister of State for Defence Procurement | |
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In office 6 July 1995 – 2 May 1997 |
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| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Preceded by | Roger Freeman |
| Succeeded by | John Gilbert |
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Member of Parliament for North East Hampshire Wanstead and Woodford (1987–1997) |
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In office 11 June 1987 – 30 March 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Patrick Jenkin |
| Succeeded by | Ranil Jayawardena |
| Member of the House of Lords | |
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Assumed office 1 October 2015 |
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| Personal details | |
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4 August 1952 Deal, Kent, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Emma née Broadbent (styled professionally as Judge Emma Arbuthnot, or formally as The Baroness Arbuthnot of Edrom) |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater |
Trinity College, Cambridge Inns of Court |
| Website | www.jamesarbuthnot.com |
James Norwich Arbuthnot, Baron Arbuthnot of Edrom, PC (born 4 August 1952) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was returned as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wanstead and Woodford from 1987 to 1997, and then MP for North East Hampshire from 1997 to 2015.
Arbuthnot served as Chairman of the Defence Select Committee from 2005 to 2014, before being nominated as a Life Peer in the Dissolution Peerages List 2015 of August 2015.
Created Baron Arbuthnot of Edrom, of Edrom in the County of Berwick, on 1 October 2015, Lord Arbuthnot sits on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords.
Arbuthnot was born in Deal, Kent, the son of Sir John Arbuthnot MBE TD, MP for Dover between 1950 and 1964, and Margaret Jean Duff. He was educated at Wellesley House School in Broadstairs and Eton College, where he was Captain of School, before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a Law degree (MA) in 1974.
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