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Arbuthnot (surname)


Arbuthnot or Arbuthnott is a Scottish surname, deriving from the village in Scotland from where members of the Arbuthnot family originated.

People with the surname Arbuthnot or Arbuthnott

  • Arbuthnot baronets
  • Viscount of Arbuthnott
  • Alexander Arbuthnot (disambiguation), several people
  • Barbara Arbuthnott (1822–1904), Scottish chicken breeder and benefactor
  • Betty Carnegy-Arbuthnott (1906–1985), British fencer
  • Charles Arbuthnot (disambiguation), several people
  • Eric Arbuthnot, South African cricketer
  • Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot (1833–1901), British Orientalist and translator
  • Geoffrey Arbuthnot (1885–1957), British naval officer during World War I, later Fourth Sea Lord
  • George Arbuthnot (disambiguation), several people
  • Gerald Arbuthnot (1872–1916), British soldier and politician, MP from Burnley
  • Harriet Arbuthnot (1793–1834), English diarist, social observer, and political hostess
  • Hugh Arbuthnot (disambiguation), several people
  • James Arbuthnot (born 1952), British politician and MP
  • James George Arbuthnot, American wrestling coach of the Oregon State Beavers
  • John Arbuthnot (disambiguation), several people
  • Keith Arbuthnot (disambiguation), several people
  • Lionel Gough Arbuthnot, English cricketer
  • Malcolm Arbuthnot (1877–1967), British pictorialist photographer and artist
  • Mariot Arbuthnot (1711–1794), British admiral during the American Revolutionary war
  • May Hill Arbuthnot (1884–1969), American educator, writer, and editor
  • Michael Arbuthnot, American archaeologist and film-maker
  • Reginald Arbuthnot, English cricketer
  • Robert Arbuthnot (disambiguation), several people
  • Thomas Arbuthnot (disambiguation), several people
  • William Arbuthnot (disambiguation), several people

Fictional characters

  • Sandy Arbuthnot, in the Richard Hannay book series by John Buchan
  • Colonel John Arbuthnot, in Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
  • Freddie Arbuthnot, in the Bertie Wooster stories of P. G. Wodehouse
  • James Charles Arbuthnot, in the novel A Graveyard for Lunatics by Ray Bradbury
  • Mrs. Arbuthnot, in the play A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
  • Frederick Arbuthnot, in the book The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Mrs. Arbuthnot, in the movie Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Dan Ireland, based on the novel by Elizabeth Taylor
  • Freddy Arbuthnot, in Lord Peter Wimsey stories by Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Fredericka "Freddy" Arbuthnot, in several books by Gregory Mcdonald
  • Lois Arbuthnot, in the novel Peace by Gene Wolfe

References

References

  1. (1862). "The Origin and Signification of Scottish Surnames. With a Vocabulary of Christian Names.". J. Munsell.
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