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 (Canadian politician) from 1901 to 1903. In 1907 he left Winnipeg for British Columbia and remained in that province until his death in 1931. The City of Winnipeg named Arbuthnot Street in his honour. John Arbuthnot (Canadian politician) John Arbuthnot (7 January 1861 – 18 September 1931) was a Canadian politician serving as an alderman and the 19th Mayor of Winnipeg. Arbuthnot worked in the railway industry in his early career, building tracks for the Canadian Pacific Railway in Ontario. He then moved to Rat Portage, Ontario to work at the Western Lumber Company. He established his own lumber business after moving