Sir Robert Arbuthnot, 2nd Baronet
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Sir Robert Keith Arbuthnot, 2nd Baronet (9 September 1801 – 4 March 1873) was a Scottish civil servant.
The son of Sir William Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet and Anne Alves entered the Bombay Civil Service and remained with them from 1819 to 1838. Arbuthnot succeeded to his father's baronetcy on 18 September 1829. A collector and Magistrate of Ahmedabad, India, he died, aged 71, in Florence, Italy.
On 20 March 1828, he married Anne Fitzgerald, daughter of Field Marshal Sir John Forster FitzGerald. They had seven children:
- Major Sir William Wedderburn Arbuthnot, 3rd Baronet (1831–1889)
- Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot (1833–1901)
- Reverend Robert Keith Arbuthnot (1838–1894)
- Henrietta Anne Arbuthnot (1840–1897)
- John Alves Henry Arbuthnot (1842–1903)
- FitzGerald Hay Arbuthnot (1849–1894)
- Charlotte d'Ende Arbuthnot (died 1904)
[edit] References
- Mrs P S-M Arbuthnot (1920). Memories of the Arbuthnots. George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
- thePeerage. Retrieved on 2006-12-04.
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| Baronetage of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by: William Arbuthnot |
Baronet (of Edinburgh) 1829–1873 |
Succeeded by: William Wedderburn Arbuthnot |
