On 12 October 1870 he married Caroline Emma Nepean Aitchison (Norwood, London, 1848 – 16 March 1927), daughter of
Captain Andrew Nepean Aitchison (
Bombay, 13 June 1816, bap. Bombay, 3 August 1816, –
Cairo,
Egypt, 1 April 1850),
13th Natal Infantry,
Honorable East India Company Service, brother of General Charles Terrington Aitchison, and wife (m.
Byculla, Bombay, 20 January 1842) Frances Matilda Farish, daughter of
James Farish, and paternal granddaughter of
Major General Andrew Aitchison of
Ryde, Isle of Wight (? –
Hastings, East Sussex, 29 February 1848) and wife Martha Charlotte ....[4] They had six children:[5]
Frances Muriel Arbuthnot (London, 22 November 1871 – 7 September 1933), married firstly on 6 July 1910 to Stephen Karl J. Brichta (? – 19 October 1929), son of Philip Brichta, and married secondly in 1929 to Gilbert Amos Reeve (?–1971), who was in the
Indian Police
Mary Christobel Arbuthnot (London, 12 September 1879 – ?), married firstly on 23 October 1907 George Archibald Wallace Young, son of Archibald Young of
Wellington House, Lancashire, and had one son, married secondly on 3 June 1914 Alexander Gifford Ludford-Astley,
Captain of the
14th King's Hussars, who was
killed in action in the First World War in
Mesopotamia on 5 March 1917, son of
The Rev. Benjamin Buckler Gifford Ludford-Astley, JP,
Master of Arts (MA),
Justice of the Peace and
Rector at
Cadeby, Leicestershire, without issue, and married thirdly on 27 April 1922 Edgar James Brydges, MC (? – 8 January 1960), Colonel of the 14th King's Hussars,
Military Cross, son of John Henry Brydges of
The Court,
Eastbourne, Sussex, and of
Fedderate,
Aberdeenshire, without issue:
Peter Leslie Young, married firstly to Pamela Clare Gaitskell (married thirdly to Hugo Darling Dent), and had one son, married secondly to Doreen ... (formerly Duff), without issue, and married thirdly to Joan Laing (formerly Barnes and Richardson), without issue:
Michael Arbuthnot Young (5 November 1930), married on 2 April 1966 to Susanna Elizabeth Barclay (18 December 1940), daughter of
Theodore David Barclay, Chairman of
Barclays Bank plc, and had two sons:
Christopher Young
Mary Young
Hugh Archibald Arbuthnot (4 December 1885 – 28 December 1950), married firstly in 1917 and divorced in 1928 Mabel Eleanor Jackson, daughter of Henry Jackson, without issue, and married secondly on 24 October 1928 Margaret Anne Reid (3 January 1895 –
Croydon, London, 29 January 1961), daughter of Andrew Reid, comedian and
house decorator, and wife Annie Brown Scott, without issue
Ronald George Urquhart Arbuthnot (London, 8 October 1891 – killed while flying on active service in the First World War on 3 December 1918, buried at
Shenley, Hertfordshire), Lieutenant of the
16th Lancers and in the
Royal Air Force.
^Arbuthnot: Mrs. P. S-M. Arbuthnot, Memories of the Arbuthnots of Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire (London, 1920), p. 311.
^United Service Magazine, April 1842, p. 591: "[marriages] Jan. 20th, at Bombay, Lieut. A. Nepean Aitchison, Second in Command Guserat Irregular Horse, eldest son of Major-General A Aitchison, formerly Adjutant-General, and late Military Auditor General at Bombay, to Frances Matilda, only daughter of the Hon. James Farish, late Senior Member of Council, and Acting Governor of that Presidency." Same, June 1850, p. 326: "[deaths] April 1, at Cairo, on his wy to England, Captain Andrew Nepean Aitchison, 13th Regiment Bombay Army, eldest son of the late Major General Aitchison, of Ryde, Isle of Wight."