Gerald Arbuthnot
{{short description|British politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix =
| name = Gerald Arbuthnot
| image = Gerald_Arbuthnot.jpg
| office = Member of Parliament
for Burnley
| term_start = 15 January 1910
| term_end = 28 November 1910
| predecessor = Frederick Maddison
| successor = Philip Morrell
| birth_date = {{birth date|1872|12|19|df=y}}
| birth_place =
| death_date = {{death date and age|1916|9|25|1872|12|19|df=y}}
| death_place = Fricourt, France
| occupation = Politician
| party = Conservative
| parents = William Arbuthnot
Selina Moncreiffe
| spouse = (Mary Johanna) Dulcie Antoinette Oppenheim
| children = 3 daughters
| footnotes =
| resting_place = Citadel New Military Cemetery, Fricourt
| allegiance = {{flag|United Kingdom}}
| branch = {{navy|United Kingdom}} (1886 – 1891, 1914 – 1915)
{{army|United Kingdom}} (1915 – 1916)
| unit =Royal Navy
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards (Army)
| rank = Lieutenant (Navy)
Second Lieutenant (Army)
| battles = First World War
- Battle of Ypres
- Battle of the Somme {{KIA}}
}}
Gerald Archibald Arbuthnot (19 December 1872 – 25 September 1916) was a British soldier and Conservative Party politician.
Early life
The son of Major General William Arbuthnot and Selina Moncreiffe, he was vice-chancellor of the Primrose League.
Political career
Arbuthnot was private secretary to the Board of Agriculture from 1895 to 1899, assistant private secretary to the President of the Local Government Board in 1901 and 1902 and assistant private secretary to the Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1905 and 1906. Between January and December 1910, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Burnley.{{cite news| url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46149900| title= Former MP killed in WW1 finally added to Parliament's memorial|last=Cole| first=Matt | publisher=BBC News| date=10 November 2018| accessdate=10 November 2018}}
Military service
In the First World War, he served in the Grenadier Guards and reached the rank of second lieutenant, having been made a lieutenant in the service of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve already in 1914. He fought in the Battle of Ypres. Arbuthnot died aged 43, killed in action during the Battle of the Somme. He was buried at Citadel New Military Cemetery, Fricourt. In November 2018, Arbuthnot's name was added to the UK Parliament's World War One memorial, after a historian at the History of Parliament Trust noticed his name was missing.
Personal life
He married (Mary Johanna) Dulcie Antoinette Oppenheim, daughter of Charles Augustus Oppenheim, on 6 February 1894. They had three daughters, one of whom, Cynthia Isabelle Theresa, married rower and financier Ian Fairbairn.
References
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- {{cite book | title= Memories of the Arbuthnots| url= https://archive.org/details/memoriesofarbuth00arbu| author= Mrs P S-M Arbuthnot| year= 1920| publisher= George Allen & Unwin Ltd}}
- {{cite web | url= http://www.thepeerage.com/p12420.htm#i124197| title= thePeerage| accessdate=3 December 2006}}
External links
- {{Hansard-contribs | mr-gerald-arbuthnot | Gerald Arbuthnot }}
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20060615045239/http://www.kittybrewster.com/members/k_2.htm Arbuthnot family tree]}}
- [http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/546503 Commonwealth War Graves Commission]
- {{Hansard-contribs | mr-gerald-arbuthnot | Gerald Arbuthnot }}
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Category:Burials in Hauts-de-France
Category:Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Category:Grenadier Guards officers
Category:Royal Navy officers of World War I
Category:Civil servants in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Category:Civil servants in the Local Government Board
Category:Civil servants in Ireland (1801–1922)
Category:Private secretaries in the British Civil Service
Category:British Army personnel of World War I
Category:British military personnel killed in the Battle of the Somme
Category:Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War I
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