For the college wrestling coach, see James George Arbuthnot.
"Lord Arbuthnot" redirects here. For the Scottish hereditary peerage, see Viscount of Arbuthnott.
The Right Honourable
The Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom
PC
Official portrait, 2022
Chairman of the Defence Select Committee
In office 13 July 2005 – 14 May 2014
Preceded by
Bruce George
Succeeded by
Rory Stewart
Shadow Secretary of State for Trade
In office 6 November 2003 – 6 May 2005
Leader
Michael Howard
Preceded by
Tim Yeo (Trade and Industry)
Succeeded by
David Willetts (Trade and Industry)
Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Commons
In office 23 June 1997 – 18 September 2001
Leader
William Hague
Preceded by
Alastair Goodlad
Succeeded by
David Maclean
Minister of State for Defence Procurement
In office 6 July 1995 – 2 May 1997
Prime Minister
John Major
Preceded by
Roger Freeman
Succeeded by
John Gilbert
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 October 2015 Life peerage
Member of Parliament for North East Hampshire
In office 1 May 1997 – 30 March 2015
Preceded by
Constituency created
Succeeded by
Ranil Jayawardena
Member of Parliament for Wanstead and Woodford
In office 11 June 1987 – 8 April 1997
Preceded by
Patrick Jenkin
Succeeded by
Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born
(1952-08-04) 4 August 1952 (age 71) Deal, Kent, England
Political party
Conservative
Spouse
Emma Broadbent
(m. 1984)
Children
4
Parent
Sir John Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet (father)
Alma mater
Trinity College, Cambridge
Inns of Court
Website
www.jamesarbuthnot.com
James Norwich Arbuthnot, Baron Arbuthnot of Edrom, PC (born 4 August 1952), is a British Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Wanstead and Woodford from 1987 to 1997, and then MP for North East Hampshire from 1997 to 2015.
Arbuthnot served as chairman of the Defence Select Committee from 2005 to 2014,[1] before being nominated as a life peer in the Dissolution Peerages List 2015 of August 2015.[2]
Created Baron Arbuthnot of Edrom, of Edrom in the County of Berwick, on 1 October 2015,[3] Lord Arbuthnot sits on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords.
^"MP Profile". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
^"Dissolution Peerages 2015". Gov.uk. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
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