Geoffrey Arbuthnot

Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Schomberg Arbuthnot, (18 January 1885 – 4 October 1957) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy.

Naval career Born in Havant, Hampshire, on 18 January 1885, Arbuthnot was the son of Admiral Charles Ramsay Arbuthnot and Emily Caroline Schomberg. Educated at the Britannia training establishment, Arbuthnot joined the Royal Navy in 1900 and fought in the First World War, where he was mentioned in despatches and was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order in 1919. He was appointed Naval Member of the Ordnance Committee at Woolwich in 1927 and then given command of the cruiser in 1929. They three children; Mary Marguerite (1914–1999), Lieutenant Peter Charles Reginald (1915–1941) and Michael Geoffrey Henderson (1919–1967).