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
Alexander Arbuthnot (poet) to the charge of the kirk of St. Andrews, ordered him to return to his duties at King's College. Minister of Logie Buchan (1568), of Forve and Arbuthnott (1569) and of St Andrews (1583). Moderator of the General Assembly (1573 and 1577). He matriculated his arms. Buried St Nicholas, Aberdeen. His extant works are three poems, "The Praises of Wemen" (4 lines), "On Luve" (10 lines), and "The Miseries of a Pure (poor) Scholar" (189 lines), and a Latin account of the Arbuthnot family, "Originis et Incrementi Arbuthnoticae Familiae Descriptio Historica", of which an English continuation, by Dr John Arbuthnot,