Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnott

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Sir Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnott (1789, Forton, Hampshire - 8 May 1871, Leicester) was a British Rear Admiral during Britain's Victorian era.

Arbuthnott served as a midshipman aboard the warship Mars at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. He was present at the capture of Le Rhin in 1806 and that of four French frigates off Rochefort by Sir Samuel Hood's Squadron in 1806. He was with the expedition to Copenhagen in 1807, was at the capture of Antwerp, and escorted the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia to England in 1814. He was Commander if the Jasper, a 10. gun Sloop-of-war, on a mission to St Petersburg in 1823. In 1824 he was in the Redwing and he was then appointed to command the Terror.

Arbuthnott's awards, honours, and memberships of honorary societies, testament to his high standing in Victorian European society, include:

Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to George IV and Queen Victoria.
Knighted Knight Bachelor (1859).
Naval medal and clasp.
Knight Commander of the Spanish Order of Charles III and Saint Fernando 1837.
Knight Commander of the Russian Order of Saint George (1823).
Turkish gold medal and Order of Medjidie (1842).

Sir Alexander married in Kildare, Ireland, 1827, Catherine Maria ("Mary") Eustace (born about 1806 in Ireland; still alive in 1891 living in Sheepy Magna, Leicestershire, England), daughter of Rev Charles Eustace and descendant of the Viscounts Baltinglass. They had a daughter, Josette Eliza Jane Arbuthnot (born about 1829 in France; died 12 January 1909).