Researching George Arbuthnot
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 166 people with the Arbuthnot surname? In that year Arbuthnot was ranked number 3413 for popularity in the UK. |
The name George means "A Tiller of the Soil or a Farmer" and is of Greek origin.
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for George Arbuthnot and the Arbuthnot Family Tree
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Some Famous People called George Arbuthnot
George Arbuthnot (civil servant)
George Arbuthnot (20 November 1802, Norbiton, Surrey - 28 July 1865) was a distinguished member of the permanent British civil service. He worked in the Treasury at the Colonial Office in Hong Kong when the HSBC charter was first drawn up; Arbuthnot Road, Hong Kong was named after him.
Arbuthnot served in the Treasury, and later was private secretary to Sir Robert Peel and subsequently to Sir Charles Wood, later Viscount Halifax. He was son of Lt-General Sir Robert Arbuthnot, KCB. He was appointed by Lord Liverpool a junior clerk in the Treasury 18 July 1820 and served with that department until his death. He was then holding the appointment of auditor of the civil list and was also secretary to the ecclesiastical commissioners. He was twice offered the appointment of financial member of the council of the governor-general of India, first on the death of Mr James Wilson, PC in 1860 and then on the retirement of Sir Charles Trevelyan in 1865, but was obliged to turn down the offer on health grounds on both occasions. He was married (1829) to Augusta Papendick (died 1853) and then (1857) to Louisa Anne Jones (daughter of Lt-General Sir Richard Jones, KCB). George Arbuthnot was father of General Henry Thomas Arbuthnot.
He wrote a retrospective economic analysis of Sir John Peel's 1844 act regulating the issue of banknotes: *Sir Robert Peel's Act of 1844, Regulating the Issue of Bank Notes, Vindicated, Longman, 1857
Source: George Arbuthnot (civil servant), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaGeorge Gough Arbuthnot
right|thumb|Sir George ArbuthnotSir George Gough Arbuthnot (28 August 1848 – 3 May 1929) was a businessman and civic leader in British India.
Arbuthnot, the son of Archibald Francis Arbuthnot (son of Sir William Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet) and Gertrude Sophia Gough was six times a member of the Madras Legislative Council. He was seven times made chairman of the Madras Chamber of Commerce, several times President of the board of directors of the Bank of Madras, and in 1900 became chairman of the Famine Relief Fund. Grandson of a Baronet, he was made a Knight Bachelor on 10 December 1901 for services to the British Empire.
He became partner of Arbuthnot & Co of Madras 1871 and was senior partner in the firm at the time of its spectacular crash in 1906, as a result of which he was sentenced to 18 months rigorous imprisonment. The charges against him were (1) Cheating in respect of a fixed deposit in the name of the Rajah Krishna Badahur; (2) breach of trust respecting the Madras Equitable Assurance Society; and (3) breach of trust in misappropriating the funds of Arbuthnot's Industrials.
On 9 September 1873, Arbuthnot married Isabella Albinia Boyle, daughter of Richard Cavendish Boyle, the son of the 8th Earl of Cork. They had two daughters.
Source: George Gough Arbuthnot, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Arbuthnot
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