Person
Harriet Arbuthnot
- Slug
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- Alternative names
- Unknown
- Gender
- Assigned female at birth
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Ethnicity
- White
- Languages
- English
- Occupations
- Unknown
Born in 1793 as Harriet Fane, she was a diarist and political hostess for the Tory Party. Married Charles Arbuthnot, a Tory MP, in 1814. During the 1820s, she maintained a close friendship with the Duke of Wellington, who twice served as Prime Minister in 1828-30 and 1834. Her detailed and extensive diaries were published in 1950 as ‘The Journal of Mrs Arbuthnot’.