John Arbuthnot John Arbuthnot John Arbuthnot FRS ("baptised" 29 April 1667 – 27 February 1735), often known simply as Dr Arbuthnot, was a Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London. He is best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his membership in the Scriblerus Club (where he inspired both Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" book III and Alexander Pope's "Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry", "Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus," and possibly "The Dunciad"), and for inventing the figure of John Bull. In his mid-life, Arbuthnot, complaining of the work of Edmund Curll, among others, who commissioned and invented a biography
Sir Robert Arbuthnot, 4th Baronet of the fiasco was the destroyer , which was engaged in a torpedo attack on the German fleet at this time. The more interesting targets "Defence", "Warrior" and then "Warspite" drew fire away from her, allowing her to escape. Her commander, John Tovey, went on to play a part in the sinking of the German battleship "Bismarck" in the Second World War. A memorial plaque was erected to Arbuthnot in St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh. and he was posthumously made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, having been made a Companion already in 1916. Sir Robert Arbuthnot, 4th