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
Lord John Grey (character) Lord John Grey (character) Lord John William Grey is a fictional character created by Diana Gabaldon. He is a recurring secondary character in Gabaldon's "Outlander" series of novels, and the main character of the "Lord John" series of historical mystery novels and novellas. Secretly homosexual "in a time when that particular predilection could get one hanged", the character has been called "one of the most complex and interesting" of the hundreds of characters in Gabaldon's "Outlander" novels. Grey first appears in the second "Outlander" novel "Dragonfly in Amber" (1992) as a sixteen-year-old English soldier who chances upon Jamie and Claire