Ernest Kennaway Arbuthnot
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Ernest Kennaway Arbuthnot, DSO. (3 September 1876 - 12 June 1945) was a British policeman.
Arbuthnot, the son of Archibald Ernest Arbuthnot, was a Captain in the British Royal Navy. He was mentioned in despatches four times. He was Chief Constable, Oxfordshire County Constabulary, 1922 - 1943. He was awarded the Royal Humane Society's bronze medal and the Order St Maurice and St Lazarus of Italy.
He married first, 1 June 1910, Edith Elizabeth Greene (died 11 September 1917), an actress known as Evie Greene (star of Florodora, a smash hit musical comedy which opened at the Lyric 11th November 1899, and of other Edwardian musical comedies), daughter of Richard Bentley Greene, formerly of Parnholt, Laburnum Grove, Portsmouth.
He married second, 15 January 1920, Gladys Mann (born 22 November 1900; died 10 May 1946), daughter of William Butland Mann of Downe, Broadhampton, South Devon.
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- Mrs P S-M Arbuthnot “Memories of the Arbuthnots” (1920). George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
