John Arnott

Sir John Arnott, 1st Baronet

Born in Auchtermuchty, Fife, he was the son of John Arnott and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Paton.^[1]

Arnott arrived in Cork in 1837 to work at Grants of Patrick Street; He later opened his own shop which failed to prosper. After starting a business in Belfast, which prospered, he returned to Cork and opened a drapery store. He later expanded this business across Ireland and Britain, including Arnotts in Henry Street, Dublin and in Glasgow (where the name continued until the early-1990s).^{[citation needed]}

Career

Among the other businesses he started or was involved in included Cash and Company Cork,^{[citation needed]} Baldoyle and Cork Race Park Meetings, the City of Cork Steamship Company, Cork and Macroom Direct Railway, Passage Docks Shipbuilding Company, the Bristol General Steam Navigation Company and Arnotts Brewery Cork.^[2]

He acquired the

In 1896, he bought the Duke of Devonshire's Irish estate in County Cork for about £250,000,^[2] and turned it onto a 32,000 acre stud farm, both for his own interest in horse racing, and to improve the livestock of local farmers.^{[citation needed]}

He married Mary, the daughter of John James McKinlay.^[1] See Arnott baronets for his descendants.

Death and legacy

John Arnott died on 28 March 1898, aged 84, at his home in Montenotte, Cork.^[2] He is buried in the churchyard of St Luke's Church, Douglas in Cork.^[4][5]

Arnott Street in

Arms

Coat of arms of John Arnott

Notes Granted 8 February 1896 by Ulster King of Arms.[7] Crest On a wreath of the colours a tower on a rock Proper with a pennon of one point statant Azure. Escutcheon Per chevron Argent and Azure in chief two mullets and in base a crescent counterchanged on a chief of the second three mullets of the first. Motto Speratum Et Completum

See also

• Irish Times
• Arnott baronets

References

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