Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnott

Admiral Sir Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnott (bapt. 5 March 1789 – 8 May 1871) was a British Royal Navy officer of the Victorian era. Background Born in Forton, Hampshire, he was the son of Robert Arbuthnott, grandson of Robert Arbuthnot, 1st Viscount of Arbuthnott, and his wife Cordelia, daughter of Hon. James Murray. Career Arbuthnott entered the Royal Navy in 1803 and served as a midshipman aboard the warship 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 the same year. Arbuthnott 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 Saint Petersburg in 1823. In the following year, Arbuthnott was in the Redwing and was appointed a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber. He then commanded and served in the Syrian Campaign of 1840. Arbuthnott was promoted to vice-admiral in 1858 and was created a Knight Bachelor a year later.