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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|East India Company army officer (1803–1867)}}<br />
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|name = Bingham Arbuthnot<br />
|birth_date = {{birth year|1803}}<br />
|death_date = {{dda|1867|1803}}<br />
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|death_place = [[Bath, Somerset]], England<br />
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|caption = Arbuthnot {{circa|1848}}<br />
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|rank = Major-General<br />
|commands = 3rd Madras Cavalry<br />
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|relations = [[Alexander Arbuthnot (bishop)|Alexander Arbuthnot]] (father)<br />
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'''George Bingham Arbuthnot''' (2 December 1803 – 30 May 1867) was a [[Major-General]] in the [[Honourable East India Company]].<br />
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Bingham was commissioned as a cornet in the 3rd Madras Light Cavalry in 1821, having previously served in the Royal Navy. he commanded the Governor General's Bodyguard, Madras, from 1841 to 1853 and as a lieutenant-colonel (1857) the 8th Madras Light Cavalry from 1856 to 1861. The Governor General's Bodyguard, Madras, was raised in 1778 and was originally composed of a small body of European cavalry. Arbuthnot was a major-general in the 3rd Madras Light Cavalry in the [[East India Company|HEIC]].<br />
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Served with the [[British East India Company]]. He was a member of the [[Ootacamund]] Club, a [[hill station]] hunt club an archetypal British colonial institution.<br />
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Son of [[Alexander Arbuthnot (bishop)|Alexander Arbuthnot]]. He was half brother of [[Alexander John Arbuthnot]] and General [[Charles George Arbuthnot]]. He married, 15 July 1829, Harriet Louisa Ormsby, daughter of Joseph Mason Ormsby. He died in [[Bath, Somerset]].<br />
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== References ==<br />
* Mrs P S-M Arbuthnot “''Memories of the Arbuthnots''” (1920). George Allen & Unwin Ltd.<br />
* [http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1965-04-17-1 National Army Museum]<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20210823023546/http://www.kittybrewster.com/members/i.htm Arbuthnot family tree]}}<br />
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