Background
The son of Sir William Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet and Anne Alves entered the Bombay Civil Service and remained with them from 1819 to 1838.
The son of Sir William Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet and Anne Alves entered the Bombay Civil Service and remained with them from 1819 to 1838.
Arbuthnot succeeded to his father"s baronetcy on 18 September 1829. A collector and Magistrate of Ahmedabad, India, he died, aged 71, in Florence, Italy. They had seven children:
Major Sir William Wedderburn Arbuthnot, 3rd Baronet (1831–1889)
Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot (1833–1901)
Reverend Robert Keith Arbuthnot (1838–1894), married Mary Agnes Vaughan, daughter of Reverend Canon Edward T. Vaughan on 17 June 1868
Henrietta Anne Arbuthnot (1840–1897)
John Alves Henry Arbuthnot (1842–1903)
Fitzgerald Hay Arbuthnot (1849–1894)
Charlotte d"Ende Arbuthnot (died 1904), married Reverend Charles Hall Raikes on 21 April 1863.