Robert (Arbuthnot) Arbuthnot First Viscount of Arbuthnot
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Robert (Arbuthnot) Arbuthnot First Viscount of Arbuthnot (abt. 1617 - 1655)

Born about in Arbuthnott, Kincardineshire, Scotlandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 1639 in Arbuthnott, Kincardineshire, , Scotlandmap
Husband of — married 30 Jun 1653 (to 10 Oct 1655) [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 38 in Arbuthnott, Kincardineshire, Scotlandmap
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Biography

Robert (Arbuthnot) Arbuthnot First Viscount of Arbuthnot is a member of Arbuthnot Family.
Sir Robert, 1st Viscount of Arbuthnott. Born about 1617. Sir Robert Arbuthnot ... [1] He died d. 10 October 1655. Son of Sir Robert Arbuthnott and Margaret Fraser. [2]
Marriages & Children[2][3]:
Married 1) Marjory Carnegie (daughter of David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Southesk), bef. 1639, and had two children:
  • Sir Robert Arbuthnot, 2nd Viscount of Arbuthnott
  • Hon. Margaret Arbuthnot
Married 2) his first cousin Katherine Fraser (daughter of Hugh Fraser, 7th Lord Lovat, on 30 June 1653, and had two children:
  • Alexander Arbuthnot, of Knox M.P.
  • Anna Arbuthnot
He was knighted by King Charles I "for his enduring loyalty", and was a Ruling Elder in the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1641. He was created 1st Viscount of Arbuthnott, of County Kincardine and 1st Lord Inverbervie, Kincardineshire, on 16 November 1641 by Charles I who was trying to persuade him to support the Royalist cause.[3]

Sources

  1. Entered by Sir William Arbuthnot, Sunday, November 3, 2013.
  2. 2.0 2.1 The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959). G.E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000, vol. I, page 184.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Robert Arbuthnot, 1st Viscount of Arbuthnot & 1st Lord of Bervie. MacFarlane Families and Connected Clans. Genealogy Website, n.d.




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