John Arbuthnott, 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott the Royal Navy (1942–46), and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) in 1945. Arbuthnott was a chartered surveyor and a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS), a Land Agent, a Justice of the Peace (JP) and a Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He served with the Agricultural Land Service division of the Ministry of Agriculture (1949–55), was Senior Land Agent for Nature Conservancy in Scotland (1955–67), member of the Countryside Commission (Scotland; 1968–71), Chairman of the Red Deer Commission 1969–75, President of the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (1973–92), President of the Scottish
John Stuart of Inchbreck John Stuart of Inchbreck Prof John Stuart of Inchbreck FRSE FSA(Scot) (1751–1827) was an 18th/19th century Scottish scholar. He was one of the joint founders of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783. He was born at Castletown in the Mearns in 1751, the second son of Dr John Stuart of Inchbreck (b.1744) and his first wife, Elizabeth Lawson. The family estate was Inchbreck House near Glenbervie. He was educated at Glenbervie then Arbuthnott school. His older brother, Dr David Stuart, initially inherited the Inchbreck estate. In 1766 he began to study Law at Aberdeen University. He continued this for