Arbuthnot baronets

Two baronets with the surname Arbuthnot have been created for members of the Arbuthnot family—both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, and still extant.

Arbuthnot baronets of Edinburgh (1823)[]

The Arbuthnot Baronetcy of Edinburgh was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 3 April 1823 for Sir William Arbuthnot, Provost of Edinburgh.^[1]

Baronets Arbuthnot of Edinburgh[]

Sir William Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet (1766–1829)
Sir Robert Keith Arbuthnot, 2nd Baronet (1801–1873) married Anne Fitzgerald, daughter of Field Marshal Sir John Forster FitzGerald, G.C.H., and his wife, Charlotte, child of the Hon. William Hazen. Lady Arbuthnot's Chamber is named after Lady Anne, who died at Florence, Italy, 6 March 1882, her husband having predeceased her on 4 March 1873. The couple had five sons and two daughters.^[2]
Sir William Wedderburn Arbuthnot, 3rd Baronet (1831–1889)
Rear Admiral Sir Robert Keith Arbuthnot, 4th Baronet (1864–1916), commander of the Royal Navy's 1st Cruiser Squadron; killed in action at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916, knighted KCB posthumously ^[3]
Sir Dalrymple Arbuthnot, CMG, DSO, 5th Baronet (1867–1941), younger brother of 4th baronet
Major Sir Robert Dalrymple Arbuthnot, 6th Baronet (1919–1944), 24th Lancers, killed in action at Normandy on 30 June 1944^[3]
Sir Hugh Fitzgerald Arbuthnot, 7th Baronet (1922–1983), younger brother of 6th baronet; married Julia Grace, daughter of Major General Frederick Peake
Sir Keith Robert Charles Arbuthnot, 8th Baronet (born 1951), educated at Wellington College and the University of Edinburgh.

The heir apparent to the baronetcy is Robert Hugh Peter Arbuthnot (born 1986), eldest son of the 8th Baronet.^[4]

Coat of arms[]

Coat of arms of Arbuthnot of Edinburgh
	Crest a peacock's head proper. Escutcheon azure, a crescent between three mullets, two and one, argent; the whole within a bordure or, charged with three boars' heads couped gules. Supporters dexter, a wyvern vert vomiting flames; sinister, a greyhound argent, collared and line reflexed over the back gules. Motto "Innocent and true"

Arbuthnot baronets of Kittybrewster (1964)[]

The Arbuthnot Baronetcy of Kittybrewster in the County of the City of Aberdeen was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 26 February 1964 for John Sinclair Wemyss Arbuthnot,^[3] for services to church and state.^[5]

Baronets Arbuthnot of Kittybrewster[]

Sir John Sinclair Wemyss Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet (1912–1992)
Sir William Reierson Arbuthnot, 2nd Baronet (1950–2021)^[6]
Sir Henry William Arbuthnot, 3rd Baronet (born 2011)

The heir presumptive is the current holder's twin brother, John Walter Arbuthnot.

Coat of arms[]

Coat of arms of Arbuthnot of Kittybrewster
	Crest a peacock's head and neck proper, accompanied on either side by a spray of strawberry leaves vert, each flowered of a cinquefoil argent. Escutcheon azure a crescent between three mullets argent, a bordure gules charged with two escallops in chief and a buck's head cabossed or in base, and in centre chief (overlapping bordure) an inescutcheon argent. Motto Deum laudans ("Praising God")^[3]