Robert Arbuthnot,
Auditor of the Exchequer in Scotland
The Scottish Exchequer had a similar role of auditing and deciding on Royal revenues as in England. It was not until 1584 that it also became a court of law, separate from the King's Privy Council. Even then, the judicial and administrative rol ...
, (1669 in
Inverbervie – 4 August 1727 in
London
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) was also sometime manager of
Lord Stair
James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair (May 1619 – 29 November 1695), Scottish lawyer and statesman, and a key influence on the Scottish Enlightenment. He was a leading figure of Scottish law, “and also one of the greatest thinkers on law ac ...
's business affairs.
On 16 May 1709 John Philp and Robert Arbuthnot received a commission from the King as joint Auditors, without power of deputation.
He died in Lord Stair's house in
Hanover Square, London.
After his death his brother
Dr John ArbuthnotO'Connor, J.J. and E.F. Robertson, ''John Arbuthnot'', biography
/ref> was requested to be present at the opening of his papers "to see if it were worth while for his wife, Elizabeth Arbuthnot, (a daughter of James Carnegie of Craigo) who was then in Scotland, to administer to him" (i.e.: be executor of his estate).
See also
* Arbuthnot, P S-M, ''Memories of the Arbuthnots'', Geo Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1920.
* Chancery Proceedings 1714–58, (235/2).
* Broome, Dorothy M., ''Auditors of the Foreign Accounts of the Exchequer 1310-27'', in ''The English Historical Review'', Vol. 38, No. 149, January 1923, pp. 63–71.
References
1669 births
1727 deaths
Robert Arbuthnot
Government audit officials
18th-century Scottish people
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