Charles Arbuthnot (disambiguation)

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Charles Arbuthnot British politician

Charles Arbuthnot was a British diplomat and Tory politician. He was Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire between 1804 and 1807 and held a number of political offices. He was a good friend of the Duke of Wellington. His second wife, Harriet, became a hostess at Wellington's society dinners, and wrote an important diary cataloging contemporary political intrigues.

Charles Arbuthnot was a renowned Scottish abbot of the Scots Monastery, Regensburg, and a leading Bavarian mathematician of his time.

Charles George Arbuthnot British Army general

Lieutenant General Sir Charles George Arbuthnot was a British Army officer. He served in the Royal Artillery in the Crimean War and rose to become a senior officer in British India.

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Alexander Arbuthnot was Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora in the then-established Church of Ireland.

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Marcia Arbuthnot was the first wife of politician Charles Arbuthnot.