1. Charles Arbuthnot was a British diplomat and Tory politician.
25 Facts About Charles Arbuthnot
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Charles Arbuthnot was Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire between 1804 and 1807 and held a number of political offices.
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Charles Arbuthnot was a good friend of the Duke of Wellington.
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Charles Arbuthnot joined the Foreign Office in 1793, where he impressed William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville.
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Charles Arbuthnot sat as Member of Parliament for East Looe between 1795 and 1796, after William Wellesley Pole stepped down because he could not support the war policies of William Pitt the younger.
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Charles Arbuthnot held a number of diplomatic postings, notably as consul general in Portugal between 1800 and 1801, as Minister to Sweden.
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Charles Arbuthnot served under Henry Addington as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between November 1803 and June 1804.
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Charles Arbuthnot travelled out with William Pole-Tylney, nephew to Arthur and Richard Wellesley.
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Charles Arbuthnot was tasked in the early days of 1807 to bring Selim III into the Anglo-Russian camp opposed to France.
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Charles Arbuthnot was Member of Parliament for Eye between 1809 and 1812, taking up the seat when Henry Wellesley resigned.
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Charles Arbuthnot became Secretary to the Treasury in 1809, and began attempts to manage public opinion for the government, by centralising management of the press.
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Under Spencer Perceval, and then Lord Liverpool, Charles Arbuthnot was Joint Secretary to the Treasury between 1809 and 1823.
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Charles Arbuthnot sat for Orford between 1812 and 1818, a pocket borough of the 2nd Marquess of Hertford, in a deal with the Liverpool ministry on behalf of Edmond Alexander MacNaghten.
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Charles Arbuthnot held the position of Patronage Secretary, and played the role of "general cabinet fixer".
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Charles Arbuthnot noted the effect the reforms were having on his influence on Members of Parliament.
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Charles Arbuthnot is taken to have been the de facto Tory whip.
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Subsequently Charles Arbuthnot sat for St Germans between 1818 and 1827.
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Charles Arbuthnot was Member of Parliament for St Ives between 1828 and 1830 and for Ashburton between 1830 and 1831.
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Charles Arbuthnot was elected with Palk in 1830, and resigned in 1831.
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Under Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Charles Arbuthnot was First Commissioner of Woods and Forests in 1828 and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between 1828 and 1830.
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Charles Arbuthnot died at Apsley House in August 1850, aged 83.
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Charles Arbuthnot had been Lady-in-Waiting since 1795 to Caroline of Brunswick, Princess of Wales.
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Charles Arbuthnot married a second time on 31 January 1814 at Fulbeck, Lincolnshire, to Harriet Fane, daughter of the Hon.
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Charles Arbuthnot's diaries were published as The Journal of Mrs Arbuthnot in 1950.
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Charles Arbuthnot had an illegitimate son, from the days before he first married, mentioned in correspondence with his clerical friend John Sneyd, brother of Walter Sneyd.