John Arbuthnott, 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott British Petroleum (BP) Scottish Advisory Board (1990–96). In 1985, Clydesdale Bank appointed Arbuthnott as a main board director, a position that lasted until 1992. Arbuthnott was Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), Prior of the Scottish Venerable Order of St John (GCStJ) (1983–95), and served as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (May 1986–87), on the Royal Commission on Historic Manuscripts (1987–94), and a member of the Aberdeen University Court (1978–84), and Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Farmers. Arbuthnott was appointed
John Arbuthnott, 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott John Arbuthnott, 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott John Campbell Arbuthnott, 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott, (26 October 1924 – 14 July 2012) was a Scottish peer, Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire (1977–99) and a notable businessman. Arbuthnott was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh (head boy) and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied estate management graduating with a BA degree in 1949; and a MA degree in 1967. He held an Honorary LL.D. degree from Aberdeen University (1995). During the Second World War, Arbuthnott served in the near and Far East and Pacific theatre (1944–45) with the Fleet Air Arm of