Sir Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnott - St John the Evangelist - Shenton, Leicestershire - Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

Sir Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnott (d.1871), a British Rear Admiral during the Victorian era, in St John the Evangelist church, Shenton.

The memorial consists of a moulded white marble tablet in the shape of a scroll with anchor and chain behind and a colourful crest at the head. The lettering is in black, the whole on black backboard which bears the maker's details in the bottom right corner.

"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.

Arbuthnott entered the Royal Navy in 1803 and served as a midshipman aboard the warship HMS Mars 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 St Petersburg in 1823. In the following year, Arbuthnott was in the Redwing and was appointed a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber. He then commanded HMS Terror 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.

Sir Alexander was Grand Prior of the Sovereign and Illustrious Order of St John of Jerusalem, Anglia 1860-61. He was invested as a Knight Commander of the Royal and Distinguished Spanish Order of Carlos III and held the same rank in the Russian Military Order of the Saint Grand Martyr and the Triumphant George.

He was ultimately promoted to full Admiral on the Retired List in 1863 before his death in 1871.

In 1827, Arbuthnott married in Kildare Catherine Maria ("Mary") Eustace (born about 1806 in Ireland; still alive in 1891 living in Sheepy Magna, Leicestershire), third daughter of Rev. Charles Eustace and descendant of the Viscounts Baltinglass. They had a daughter, Josette Eliza Jane Arbuthnot (born about 1829 in France; died 12 January 1909; married Major Frederick Wollaston). Arbuthnott died in 1871 in Leicester. He is buried in Shenton, Leicestershire."

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The memorial reads -
IN MEMORY
OF
SIR ALEXANDER DUNDAS YOUNG ARBUTHNOTT,
ADMIRAL ROYAL NAVY;
ONE OF THE GENTLEMEN OF HER MAJESTY?S PRIVY CHAMBER,
KNIGHT COMMANDER OF THE ORDER OF CHARLES III,
AND OF THE NATIONAL AND MILITARY ORDER
OF SAN FERNANDO OF SPAIN;
KNIGHT OF THE IMPERIAL ORDER OF ST GEORGE OF RUSSIA,
AND THE IMPERIAL ORDER OF THE MEDJIDIE OF TURKEY.
AFTER SERVING HIS GOD AND HIS COUNTRY
WITH TRUE DEVOTION,
DIED ON THE 8TH OF MAY, 1871,
AT SHENTON HALL,
AGED 82 YEARS.
HIS REMAINS ARE INTERRED IN THIS CHURCHYARD.
HE ENTERED THE ROYAL NAVY, APRIL 9TH, 1803,
WAS PRESENT AT THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR,
AND SERVED IN THE EXPEDITION BEFORE ALGIERS,
ACCOMPANIED THE BRITISH AUXILIARY LEGION TO SPAIN,
WAS PRESENT AT THE RELIEF OF ST SEBASTIAN,
AND LED THE FORLORN HOPE AT THE STORMING OF IRUN.
NOT SLOTHFUL IN BUSINESS,
FERVENT IN SPIRIT,
SERVING THE LORD.

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