John Arbuthnot Spanish Succession. The war had profited John and Sarah Churchill, and the Tory ministry sought to end it by withdrawing from all England's alliances and negotiating directly with France. Swift wrote "The Conduct of the Allies," and Arbuthnot wrote a series of five pamphlets featuring John Bull. The first of these, "Law Is a Bottomless Pit" (1712), introduced a simple allegory to explain the war. John Bull (England) is suing Louis Baboon (i.e. Louis Bourbon, or Louis XIV of France) over the estate of the dead Lord Strutt (Charles II of Spain). Bull's lawyer is the one who really enjoys
John Arbuthnot (agriculturist) a London banker with Grasshopper banking house, and also niece of Archbishop George Stone (1708–1764) of Armagh, the Primate of Ireland, son of Andrew Stone. Anne Stone's brother was Andrew Stone (1703–1773), under secretary of state 1748. The couple had ten children: On 10 June 1789, Arbuthnot married his fourth wife, being her second husband, Helen O'Halloran Fitzgerald (?): they had no children. In 1791, he then married his fifth wife, Anne Elizabeth Heard (?), and they too had no children. John Arbuthnot (agriculturist) John Arbuthnot FRS (c.1729 – 27 December 1797) was a British agriculturist, the Inspector General of