George Arbuthnot

George Arbuthnot of Norton Court (9 January 1836 – 26 December 1912) was a British politician.

Life Arbuthnot was born on 9 January 1836 in Madras, British India. He was the son of John Alves Arbuthnot of Coworth Park, Old Windsor, Sunningdale, Berkshire, and wife and cousin Mary Arbuthnot. His father was a co-founder of Arbuthnot Latham, a private bank.

Personal life On 12 October 1870, he married Caroline Emma Nepean Aitchison (1848–1927), daughter of Capt. Andrew Nepean Aitchison, of the 13th Natal Infantry, Honorable East India Company Service, and Frances Matilda Farish (a daughter of James Farish, acting Governor of Bombay). Her paternal grandfather was Major General Andrew Aitchison of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Together, they had six children:

Frances Muriel Arbuthnot (1871–1933), who married Stephen Karl J. Brichta, son of Philip Brichta, in 1910. After his death in 1929, she married Gilbert Amos Reeve of the Indian Police, in 1929.

Descendants Through his daughter Mary, he was a grandfather of Peter Leslie Young, who married Pamela Clare Gaitskell, Doreen Duff, and Joan Laing (formerly Barnes and Richardson), and was the great-grandfather of Michael Arbuthnot Young (b. 1930), who married Susanna Elizabeth Barclay (daughter of Theodore David Barclay, Chairman of Barclays Bank).