John Arbuthnott, 14th Viscount of Arbuthnott explained

John Arbuthnott
Office1:Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire
Term Start1:1926
Term End1:1960
Office2:Scottish representative peer in the House of Lords
Term Start2:1945
Term End2:1955
Birth Date:15 September 1882
Spouse:Dorothy Oxley
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Allegiance:Great Britain
Branch:Canadian Army
Welsh Guards
Rank:Lieutenant

John ("Jack") Ogilvy Arbuthnott, 14th Viscount of Arbuthnott DL (Montrose, 15 September 1882 – 17 October 1960), was a Scottish Viscount.

Biography

Lord Arbuthnott enlisted in the Calgary Light Horse, a unit of the Canadian Army, in February 1917. He was later a lieutenant in the Welsh Guards.

Lord Arbuthnott represented viscounts at the Coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953.

Lord Arbuthnott served as Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire from 1926 to his death, was Convenor of Kincardineshire County Council in 1933, and served ten years in the House of Lords (1945 - 1955) as a Scottish representative peer.

He married Dorothy Oxley of Ripon.

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