Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnot (bef. 1789 - 1871)

Born before 5 Mar 1789 in Forton, Hampshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Catherine Mary (Eustace) Arbuthnot — married 25 May 1826 (to 8 May 1871) in Paris, France

Descendants

Died 8 May 1871 after age 82 in Shenton Hall, Leicestershire, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Holy Trinity

Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnot was born at Forton in Hampshire, son of Robert Arbuthnot and his wife, Cordelia Murray in 1789.^[1] He was baptised at Holy Trinity church, in the fortified town of Gosport, on the 7th of March 1789. ^[2]

Trafalgar. N Pocock

He served as a midshipman on board Mars at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. ^[1]

At The British Ambassador's House in Paris on the 25th of May 1826 he married Catherine Maria Eustace, ^[3] daughter of Charles Eustace and his wife, Cassandra Stannard.

He was knighted at St James's Palace on the 25th of June 1859. ^[4]

Alexander died at Shenton Hall in Leicestershire on the 8th of May 1871.

Rear Admiral. Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to George IV and Queen Victoria. Knight Cmdr of the Spanish Orders of Charles III and St Fernando, Knight Cmdr of the Russian St George (a much esteemed gallantry award). Turkish gold medal and Order of Medjidie (1842). Bailiff, Order of St John (1861).

Research note

Clan MAcFarlane Genealogy mistakes his marriage. In 1827 at Kildare in Ireland he married Catherine Mary Eustace ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Trafalgar Ancestors: Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnot
2. ↑ England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 FHL Film Number 918895 (Holy Trinity, Gosport 5 Mar 1789 Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnot son of Robert Arbuthnot and Cordelia) Viewed at Ancestry. Text only
3. ↑ UK, Foreign and Overseas Registers of British Subjects, 1628-1969 (HBM Ambassador's House, Paris 25 May 1826 Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnott of St Ninian in Midlothian, Scotland married Catherine Maria Eustace of Kilmeasac in County Kildare, Ireland)
4. ↑ The Knights of England. A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland by Shaw, William Arthur, 1865-1943; Burtchaell, George Dames, 1853-1921 Page 354
5. ↑ Clan MacFarlane Genealogy: Adml. Sir Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnot

• Thepeerage.com: Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnott Cites: Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. Burke's Irish Family Records. London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976