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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] Its coat of arms includes supporters.[2]

Incumbents

The heir apparent to the baronetcy is Robert Hugh Peter Arbuthnot (born 1986), eldest son of the 8th Baronet.[2]

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,[4] for services to church and state.[5]

Incumbents

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")[4]

Gallery

See also

References

  1. ^ "No. 17846". The London Gazette. 24 August 1822. p. 1386.
  2. ^ a b Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 120. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  3. ^ Morgan, Henry James, ed. (1903). Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are or have been Connected with Canada. Toronto: Williams Briggs. p. 344.
  4. ^ a b c d Burke 2003, p. 125
  5. ^ "No. 43262". The London Gazette. 3 March 1964. p. 1985.
  6. ^ Family tree – Arbuthnots of Kittybrewster

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