Sir Robert Keith Arbuthnot, 2nd Baronet (9 September 1801 – 4 March 1873) was a Scottish civil servant who served in India.

Early life

Arbuthnot was born in Scotland on 9 September 1801. He was the eldest son of

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(1766–1829) and Anne Alves (d. 1846). Among his younger siblings were John A. Arbuthnot, George Clerk Arbuthnot (father of

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), Archibald Francis Arbuthnot (who married Hon. Gertrude Sophia Gough, daughter of the 1st Viscount Gough, father of Maj.-Gen. William Arbuthnot and Sir

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), William Urquhart Arbuthnot (a member of the

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) and James Edward Arbuthnot. His father served as

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and

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of the

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. His maternal grandfather was John Alves, Esq., of Shipland,

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. His paternal grandparents were Robert Keith Arbuthnot,

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of Haddo Rattray, and Mary Urquhart of

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. Among his extended family were uncles, George Arbuthnot, 1st of Elderslie, and Robert Arbuthnot.

Career

Arbuthnot entered the

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and remained with them from 1819 to 1838. Arbuthnot succeeded to his father's baronetcy on 18 September 1829. He later served as collector and Magistrate of

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, India. In Scotland, he was the Secretary to the Board of Trustees and Manufactures.

Personal life

On 20 March 1828, he married Anne Fitzgerald (–1882), daughter of

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Sir John Forster FitzGerald and the former Charlotte Hazen. Together, they had seven children: * Sir William Wedderburn Arbuthnot, 3rd Baronet (1831–1889), a Major in the 18th Hussars; he married Alice Margaret Tompson, a daughter of Rev. Matthew Carrier Tompson, in 1863. *

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(1833–1901), a prominent orientalist who married, as her second husband, Elinor Stirling, daughter of Adm. Sir James Stirling,

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and widow of James Guthrie, 4th Baron of Craigie, in 1879. * Charlotte d'Ende Arbuthnot (1836–1904), who married the Rev. Charles Hall Raikes in 1863. * Robert Keith Arbuthnot (1838–1894), a clergyman who married Mary Agnes Vaughan, daughter of Rev. Canon Edward Thomas Vaughan in 1868. * Henrietta Anne Arbuthnot (1840–1897), who died unmarried. * John Alves Henry Arbuthnot (1842–1903), a banker who died unmarried at Brieg, Switzerland. * FitzGerald Hay Arbuthnot (1849–1894) Sir Robert died on 4 March 1873, aged 71, in

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, Italy.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.''

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, 2003, volume 1, page 124.

Descendants

Through his daughter Charlotte, he was a grandfather of Arthur Edward Harrington Raikes (1867–1915), the

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officer who served as acting prime minister, vizier and first minister to numerous

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