Sir Robert Arbuthnot, 6th Baronet
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Sir Robert Dalrymple Arbuthnot, 6th Baronet (4 July 1919 – 30 June 1944) was a British soldier and baronet.
The son of Sir Dalrymple Arbuthnot, 5th Baronet and Alice Maud Arbuthnot was educated at Kingsmead College, Seaford, East Sussex, and Eton College, Berkshire. He was further educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge. On 31 March 1941 he succeeded to his father's baronetcy. Arbuthnot fought in the Second World War, serving as Major in the 24th Lancers. He was killed in action in Normandy and died unmarried and childless.
Nash Church in Nash, South Shropshire, has a window to his memory by the pulpit.
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- Mrs P S-M Arbuthnot (1920). Memories of the Arbuthnots. George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
- thePeerage. Retrieved on 2006-12-12.
- Burke's Peerage & Baronetage. Retrieved on 2006-12-23.
- Cracrofts Peerage. Retrieved on 2006-12-23.
- (1948) Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage.
- (1942) Who's Who.
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| Preceded by Dalrymple Arbuthnot |
Baronet (of Edinburgh) 1941–1944 |
Succeeded by Hugh Fitzgerald Arbuthnot |
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