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
Arbuthnot baronets Arbuthnot baronets There have been two creations of baronets with the surname Arbuthnot created for members of the Arbuthnot family, both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom and both are extant. The Arbuthnot Baronetcy of Edinburgh was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 3 April 1823 for Sir William Arbuthnot, Provost of Edinburgh. The coat of arms of this baronet includes supporters. The heir apparent to the baronetcy is Robert Hugh Peter Arbuthnot (born 1986), eldest son of the 8th Baronet. The Arbuthnot Baronetcy of Kittybrewster in the County of the City of Aberdeen was created