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Major John Bernard Arbuthnot MVO (17 May 1875 – 16 September 1950) was a British soldier, banker, and journalist.
Born in London, he was the son of Colonel George Arbuthnot and Caroline Emma Nepean Aitchison. Arbuthnot served in the Scots Guards, reaching the rank of Major. In 1900 and 1901, he fought in the Second Boer War, and later in the First World War. Invested as a Member of the Royal Victorian Order in 1902, Arbuthnot was Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Hong Kong but Arbuthnot Road is not named after him.
As a journalist on the Daily Express, in 1917 he founded its By the Way column, writing it pseudonymously as 'Beachcomber', before he was promoted to deputy editor and passed the role to D. B. Wyndham-Lewis in 1919.
[edit] Family
On 8 June 1903, he married Olive Blake, daughter of Sir Henry Arthur Blake. They had six children:
- Irene Joan Grace Arbuthnot (1904–1997), explorer and author
- David George Arbuthnot (1905–1985), married firstly the 10th Baroness Wharton on 17 May 1933, married secondly Barbara Margherita Chiappini, daughter of Francis Chiappini on 25 April 1946
- Group Captain Terence John Arbuthnot (1906–1995), married Karin Gunborg Sundgren, daughter of Carl Adolph Sundgren on 20 April 1937
- Commander Bernard Kieran Charles Arbuthnot (1909–1975), married Rosemary Harold Thompson, daughter of Lt.-Col. Harold Thompson on 15 April 1939
- Major Richard Henry Myles Arbuthnot (1911–1943), married Marjorie Helen Miller, daughter of Ralph Miller on 28 April 1939
- Patricia Evangeline Anne Arbuthnot (1914–1989), married firstly Arthur Cecil Byron, son of Cecil Byron on 10 October 1933, married secondly Francis Claud Cockburn in 1940
[edit] References
- Family tree. Retrieved on 2006-10-10.
- thePeerage. Retrieved on 2006-12-03.
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