Talk:John Arbuthnot
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To the Arbuthnot genealogists who have been entering text: Be aware that Dr. John Arbuthnot survived all of his children. None of them had children. Therefore, he is a dead end in the family line. His Jacobite brothers might have had issue, but they were both living in France. Geogre 14:27, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
- Surely Dr John died 1734/5 while his children died 1740 (Anne and Margaret), 1779 (George) and 1731 (Charles - who DID die in his father's lifetime). So which dates are being queried? - Kittybrewster 17:06, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
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- Well, that's a fault of the DNB, which only mentioned the male heirs. They had said that Charles died and, I thought, George, without issue. My point was that genealogy is inappropriate in any case in an encyclopedia article. For those interested in their lineage and what it has done for them, there are other projects. Wikipedia explicitly forbids genealogy. (And, for the anon., my own family is quite illustrious, and yet I do not feel compelled to trace them in an encyclopedia and confine myself to genealogy forums and texts.) Geogre 21:54, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Attribution trouble
The story of JA letting his children burn his papers comes from Pope. Pope himself was a great conservator of his own papers and of paper in general (autograph letters show that he would reuse a single piece of paper and fill every milimeter of it), who was quite shocked. However, the source of that is.... It's either Spence (and our reference goes to a blues musician) or the correspondence. If anyone has access to Atiken's Works, I'm sure it's mentioned in the biography there. Geogre 12:37, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
