Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnott

Sir Alexander Arbuthnott
Forton, Hampshire, England
Died	8 May 1871 (1871-05-09) Leicester
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	Royal Navy
Years of service	1803–1846
Rank	Royal Navy Rear admiral
Battles/wars	Battle of Trafalgar, 1805 Battle of Copenhagen, 1807
Awards	Naval General Service Medal, clasp Trafalgar[1] Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to George IV and to Queen Victoria Knight Commander of the Russian Order of Saint George , 1823 Knight Commander of the Spanish Order of Charles III, 1837 Turkish gold medal and Order of Medjidie , 1842 Knight Bachelor, 1859

Admiral Sir Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnott (bapt. 5 March 1789^[2] – 8 May 1871) was a British Royal Navy officer of the Victorian era.

Background

Born in

Arbuthnott entered the Royal Navy in 1803 and served as a midshipman aboard the warship HMS Mars at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. He was present at the capture of Le Rhin in 1806 and that of four French frigates off Rochefort by Sir Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet's Squadron in the same year. Arbuthnott was with the expedition to Copenhagen in 1807, was at the capture of Antwerp, and escorted the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia to England in 1814.

He was commander of the

Sir Alexander was Grand Prior of the

Military Order of the Saint Grand Martyr and the Triumphant George.^[3]

He was ultimately promoted to full admiral on the Retired List in 1863 before his death in 1871.[4]

Family

In 1827, Arbuthnott married in

Sheepy Magna, Leicestershire), third daughter of Rev. Charles Eustace and descendant of the Viscounts Baltinglass. They had a daughter, Josette Eliza Jane Arbuthnot (born about 1829 in France

; died 12 January 1909; married Major Frederick Wollaston).

Arbuthnott died in 1871 in Leicester. He is buried in Shenton, Leicestershire.

References

1. ^ "Online medal roll, DNW website".
2. ^ England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538–1975
3. ^ ^{a b c} Dod, Robert P. (1860). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co. p. 91.
4. ^ "No. 22795". The London Gazette. 8 December 1863. p. 6441.

• Mrs P S-M Arbuthnot Memories of the Arbuthnots (1920). George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
• Sir James Balfour Paul, ed. (1908). The Scots Peerage. founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's 'Peerage of Scotland'.

External links

• O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Arbuthnott, Alexander Dundas Young" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.

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