James Norwich Arbuthnot (born 4 August 1952) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Hampshire North-East.
Arbuthnot was born in Deal, Kent, the son of Sir John Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet and Margaret Jean Duff. He was educated at Wellesley House School in Broadstairs, Eton College (Captain of school) and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a law degree in 1974.
Arbuthnot was called to the Bar by Linco...
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James Norwich Arbuthnot (born 4 August 1952) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Hampshire North-East.
Arbuthnot was born in Deal, Kent, the son of Sir John Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet and Margaret Jean Duff. He was educated at Wellesley House School in Broadstairs, Eton College (Captain of school) and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a law degree in 1974.
Arbuthnot was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1975 and became a practising barrister. An active member of the Chelsea Conservative Association, he was elected as a councillor to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in 1978 and remained a councillor until his election as a Member of Parliament (MP) in 1987. In 1980 he became the vice-chairman of the Chelsea Conservative Association.
Arbuthnot contested the Cynon Valley seat, in the Labour heartland of industrial South Wales, at the 1983 general election and was defeated by Ioan Evans. A year later in 1984, Evans died and...
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