ARNOT, William. b. Falkirk; a chemist; employed purifying the river North Esk 1868; opened large chemical works at Kirkintilloch 1873; delivered a course of 6 Cantor lectures on The technology of the paper trade at the Society of Arts 1877. d. Bridge of Allan 9 Feb. 1881 aged 38.
ARNOTT, Archibald. b. Kirkconnell hall, Ecclefechan, co. Dumfries 1771; surgeon 20 foot 23 Aug. 1799 to 25 Dec. 1826, when placed on h.p.; medical attendant of Napoleon at St. Helena 1 April 1821 to 5 May 1821, when he died at 5.49 p.m. with his right hand in that of Dr. Arnott; author of An account of the last illness decease and post mortem appearances of Napoleon Bonaparte 1822. d. Kirkconnell hall, 6 July 1855.
ARNOTT, Francis Short. b. 1805; surgeon Bombay army 5 June 1845; hon. surgeon to the Queen 1861 to death; C.B. 21 March 1859. d. Kirkconnell hall 16 Oct. 1879.
ARNOTT, George Arnott Walker (son of David Walker Arnott of Arlary near Kinross who d. 1822). b. Edinburgh 6 Feb. 1799; ed. at the High school and Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1818, LLD. Aberdeen 1837; advocate 1821; visited France, Spain and Russia; F.R.S Edin. 1822, F.L.S. 1825; worked with William Hooker the botanist at Glasgow 1830–40; member of Botanical society of Edin. 1836; professor of botany in Univ. of Glasgow 1845 to death; published descriptions of many new plants from Asia and America in various periodicals 1830–40; author of the article Botany in the Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 ed. vol. 5. d. Glasgow 17 June 1868. Trans. Botanic Society of Edin. ix, 414–26 (1868).
ARNOTT, Neil. b. Arbroath, Angusshire 15 May 1788; surgeon in H.E.I. Co’s. naval service 1807–11; practised in London 1811–55 when he retired; M.R.C.S. 1813; M.D. Aberdeen 15 Sep. 1814; L.R.C.P. 31 March 1817; invented his hydrostatic or water bed 1832; and Arnott stove and the ventilator; one of senate of Univ. of London 1836; founded an exhibition there for experimental physics 1875; phys. extraordinary to Queen Victoria 8 Aug. 1837; F.R.S. 25 Jany. 1838, Rumford medallist 1854; F.G.S. 1847; founded scholarships of natural philosophy at the 4 Scottish universities 1869; author of Elements of physics 1827, 7 ed. 1876; A survey of human progress 1861. d. Cumberland terrace, London 2 March 1874. Proc. of Royal Society xxv, 14–18 (1877); Medical Circular i, 92, 149 (1852), portrait; Graphic ix, 314, 328 (1874), portrait.
ARNTZ, Robert Richard. b. Erefeldt, Prussia 1815; taken to England 1819; articled to W. Herbert of London, builder 1831; naturalised 15 May 1848; surveyor to Westminster district board of works; A.I.C.E. 1856; F.S.A. 18 Dec. 1862. d. 17 Feb. 1882.
ARRAN, Philip Yorke Gore, 6 Earl of. b. Dublin castle 23 Nov. 1801; chargé d’Affaires at Buenos Ayres 17 Oct. 1832 to 18 Oct. 1834; succeeded his uncle 20 Jany. 1837; K.P. 6 May 1841. d. 27 Chesham st. London 25 June 1884.
ARRINDELL, Sir William. b. in one of the Virgin islands 1796; ed. in England; attorney general British Guiana 10 May 1845 to 1852; chief justice of Demerara 1852 to death; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858; knighted by patent 13 Dec. 1858. d. Demerara 27 Dec. 1862.
ARROW, Sir Frederick (2 son of Wm. Arrow, captain Indian Navy.) b. Calcutta 1818; ed. at Bath gr. sch.; in mercantile marine service June 1834 to Feb. 1859; an elder brother of Trinity House Feb. 1859, and deputy master June 1865 to death; knighted by patent 29 Aug. 1868; F.R.G.S. 1871; (m. 1850 Harriet 5 dau. of R. Stileman of the Friars, Winchelsea.) d. Pilgrims hall, South Weald, near Brentwood 17 July 1875; I.L.N. lxvi 95, 100 (1875) portrait.
ARROWSMITH, John. b. Winston near Barnard Castle, Durham 23 April 1790; joined his uncle Aaron Arrowsmith of Soho Square London, geographer 14 Feb. 1810; one of founders of Royal geographical society 1830, gold medallist 1862; produced London atlas of universal geography 1834, 3 ed. 1858; illustrated with maps Leichhardt’s journal of an overland expedition in Australia 1847, and many other books; bought 10 Soho Square 1839, carried on business there down to 1861 when he retired; F.R.A.S. d. 35 Hereford sq. Old Brompton 2 May 1873. Journal of geographical society xliii, 161–63 (1873.)