Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnott

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name= Sir Alexander Arbuthnott
born=1789
died=May 8 1871
placeofbirth=Forton, Hampshire, England
placeofdeath= Leicester


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allegiance= flagicon|United Kingdom United Kingdom
serviceyears= 1803 - 1846
rank= Royal Navy Rear Admiral
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battles= Battle of Trafalgar, 1805 Battle of Copenhagen, 1807
awards= Naval Gold Medal Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to George IV and Queen Victoria Knight Commander of the Russian Order of Saint George, 1823 Knight Commander of the Spanish Order of Charles III and Saint Fernando, 1837 Turkish gold medal and Order of Medjidie, 1842 Knight Bachelor, 1859
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Sir Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnott (1789, Forton, Hampshire - 8 May, 1871, Leicester) was a British Rear Admiral during Britain's Victorian era.

Arbuthnott served as a midshipman aboard the warship "Mars" at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. He was present at the capture of "Le Rhin" in 1806 and that of four French frigates off Rochefort by Sir Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet's Squadron in 1806. He was with the expedition to Copenhagen in 1807, was at the capture of Antwerp, and escorted the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia to England in 1814. He was Commander of the "Jasper", a 10 gun Sloop-of-war, on a mission to St Petersburg in 1823. In 1824 he was in the "Redwing" and he was then appointed to command the "Terror".

He later served in the British Auxiliary Legion during the First Carlist War

Sir Alexander married in Kildare, Ireland, 1827, Catherine Maria ("Mary") Eustace (born about 1806 in Ireland; still alive in 1891 living in Sheepy Magna, Leicestershire, England), daughter of Rev Charles Eustace and descendant of the Viscounts Baltinglass. They had a daughter, Josette Eliza Jane Arbuthnot (born about 1829 in France; died 12 January 1909).

References

[http://www.pbenyon1.plus.com/Nbd/exec/A/Index.html Profile]
* Mrs P S-M Arbuthnot "Memories of the Arbuthnots" (1920). George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
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