ARBUTHNOT, Margaret, Lady (Margaret Jean nee DUFF) 1919-2023

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Richard R

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Nov 25, 2023, 3:19:46 AM11/25/23
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From the Telegraph of 25 Nov 2023: ARBUTHNOT On 13th November 2023 at home aged 104, Margaret Jean, very dearly loved wife of the late John Sinclair-Wemyss Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet of Kittybrewster, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend. Service of Thanksgiving at 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday 12th December at Chelsea Old Church.

Was she the last surviving widow of a baronet of 1st creation?

She was d of (Alexander) Gordon DUFF 1884-1978 scion of that Scots gentry family of Hatton and as her 2nd h Janet (Jenny) Macfie BLAIKIE 1879-1972. She m 1943 Sir John Sinclair Wemyss ARBUTHNOT MBE 1st Bt 1912-92, and had 2 sons and 3 daus.

Post on the death of her son Sir William ARBUTHNOT 2nd Bt, a regular and much missed poster to this group:
https://groups.google.com/g/peerage-news/c/uSE4SG_32dw/m/ONhBKrPqAgAJ

John B-H

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Nov 25, 2023, 11:34:56 PM11/25/23
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Life peer Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom (born 1952) is her son.
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