John Arbuthnott, 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott

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John Campbell Arbuthnott, 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott , KT , CBE , DSC , JP , FRSA , FRSE , (born October 26, 1924 , Dobton House, near Montrose , Scotland ; † July 14, 2012 in Arbuthnott , Kincardineshire , Scotland) was a British peer , businessman and member of the House of Lords .

Life

Education, military service and professional career

John Campbell Arbuthnott, 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott was the son of Major-General Robert Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott (1897-1966) and his wife Ursula Collingwood († 1989) on the family estate Dobton House near Montrose in Scotland born. Like his father and grandfather, he attended Fettes College in Edinburgh ; where he was head boy (Head Boy).

In 1942, at the age of 18, he volunteered in the Royal Navy . He was stationed as a marine pilot with the Fleet Air Arm ; He completed his pilot training in the United States . He was posted to the 849 Naval Air Squadron; he served on the aircraft carrier HMS Victorious . He flew 1944–1945 Grumman Avenger torpedo bombers in the Middle East and the Pacific until the surrender of Japan in August 1945. 1945 was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his bravery ("for gallantry") .

He studied after leaving military service (1946) Real estate industry (Estate Management) at Gonville and Caius College of Cambridge University ; there he earned a bachelor's degree in 1949 . Arbuthnott had a successful career as a real estate agent (land agent) and real estate surveyor (chartered surveyor), mainly in Yorkshire , Leicestershire and Midlothian . From 1949 to 1955 he worked for the Agriculture Land Service of the British Ministry of Agriculture (Ministry of Agriculture). He then worked from 1955 to 1967 as Senior Land Agent at the Nature Conservancy in Scotland.

In 1967, he went at the age of 43 years, for a year at the University of Cambridge back, completed a Postgraduate studies and graduated in 1967 with a Master of Arts , Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin), from.

Arbuthnott was a director of the real estate company Aberdeen & Northern Marts Ltd from 1973 to 1991 ; from 1986 to 1991 he was also Chairman of the Board. From 1978 to 1994 he was director of the investment firm Scottish Widows (Scottish Widows' Fund and Life Assurance Society); from 1984 to 1987 he was also chairman of the board. He was a board member of the Scottish North Investment Trust (1979–1985). He was a Director of Britoil plc (1988–1990) and a member of the British Petroleum (BP) Scottish Advisory Board (1990–1996). In 1985 he became "Main Board Director" at Clydesdale Bank ; he held this office until 1992.

Other offices

Arbuthnott held numerous other offices and honorary positions. He was a member of the Countryside Commission for Scotland (1968–1971), Chairman (Chairman) of the Red Deer Commission (1969–1975), President (President) of the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (1973–1992), President (President) of Scottish Landowners' Federation (1974–1979), President (President) of the Scottish Agricultural Organization Society (1980–1983), Deputy Chairman (Deputy Chairman) of the Nature Conservancy Council (1980–1985), Chairman (Chairman) of the Advisory Committee for Scotland (1980–1985), President of the Federation of Agricultural Co-operatives (UK) Ltd (1983–2012).

He was President (President) of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (1984-1987). He was also a member of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (1976–2012); from 1976 to 1996 he was its president. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Aberdeen (1978–1984; Member, Aberdeen University Court).

Membership in the House of Lords

With the inheritance of the title of Viscount of Arbuthnott , Arbuthnott became a member of the House of Lords on December 15, 1966 . His membership in the House of Lords ended on November 11, 1999 by the House of Lords Act 1999 .

Awards and honors

In 1972 he was appointed Officer (OStJ) of the Order of Saint John (Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John); worked for the Order from 1983 to 1995 for Scotland as Prior (GCStJ). In 1986 he became Commander of the Order of the British Empire . In 1996 he was named Knight Companion of the Order of the Thistle ; He was thus one of the few members of the order, which was limited to 16 members each. This recognized his services to Scotland.

He was Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire (1977-1999). As an active member of the Church of Scotland Arbuthnott served twice (1986 and 1987) as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland ("Her Majesty's Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland").

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS), Fellow of the Chartered Land Agents' Society (FLAS), Member (Liveryman) of Worshipful Company of Farmers and member of the Royal Commission on Historic Manuscripts (1987–1994).

In 1995 he received the honorary degree as Doctor of Laws (Honorary Doctor of Laws; LL.D.) of Aberdeen University .

Family and title

On September 3, 1949, he married Mary Elizabeth Darley Oxley, the daughter of Commander Christopher Bernard Oxley and his wife Kathleen Maude Eginton Grant, partly against the opposition of his family, who thought he was too young to be married. The marriage had two children, a son and a daughter. The marriage was considered happy; in 2009 Arbuthnott and his wife Mary celebrated their diamond wedding . His wife died in January 2010.

He lived on his estate, Arbuthnott House, in the village of Arbuthnott , in Kincardineshire . He died there on July 14, 2012 at the age of 87 after a long illness. The funeral service (followed by a funeral) took place on July 20, 2012 in the Arbuthnott Kirk. On September 12, 2012, a memorial service was held for him at St Machar's Cathedral in Aberdeen .

On December 15, 1966, on the death of his father, he inherited the title of Viscount of Arbuthnott as the 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott, of County Kincardine in the Peerage of Scotland (first awarded in 1641) and the associated title of 16th Lord Inverbervie, County Kincardine (Peerage of Scotland, first awarded 1641).

His only son, (John) Keith Oxley Arbuthnott, Master Arbuthnott (* 1950), became the heir to the title after his death.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Thomas Henry Oliver Stanley, 8th Baron Stanley of Alderley, 7th Baron Eddisbury and 8th Baron Sheffield Obituary in: Herald Scotland of 19 July 2012
  2. ↑ a b c d Charles Mosley: (Ed.): Burke's Peerage & Baronetage , 106th edition. Crans. Switzerland 1999, page 99. ISBN 2-940085-02-1
  3. ^ A b c d e f John Crooks, & Alison Green: Debrett's People of Today , 14th Edition, London, 2001, p. 45; ISBN 1-870520-64-5
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h John Campbell Arbuthnott, 16th Viscount Arbuthnott on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h John Campbell Arbuthnott, 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott ( Memento from July 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Entry in: Frost's Scottish Who's Who ; Retrieved December 10, 2013
  6. ↑ a b c John Campbell Arbuthnott, 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott CV; Arbuthnot Family Association, accessed December 10, 2013
predecessor Office successor
Keith Arbuthnott Viscount of Arbuthnott
1966–2012 		Keith Arbuthnott
personal data
SURNAME Arbuthnott, John, 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arbuthnott, John Campbell, 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British peer, businessman and member of the House of Lords
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Dobton House, Montrose , Scotland, United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 2012
Place of death Arbuthnott , Kincardineshire, Scotland, United Kingdom