James Arbuthnot

The Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom
Official portrait, 2022
Chairman of the Defence Select Committee
In office
13 July 2005 – 14 May 2014
Preceded byBruce George
Succeeded byRory Stewart
Shadow Secretary of State for Trade
In office
6 November 2003 – 6 May 2005
LeaderMichael Howard
Preceded byTim Yeo (Trade and Industry)
Succeeded byDavid Willetts (Trade and Industry)
Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Commons
In office
23 June 1997 – 18 September 2001
LeaderWilliam Hague
Preceded byAlastair Goodlad
Succeeded byDavid Maclean
Minister of State for Defence Procurement
In office
6 July 1995 – 2 May 1997
Prime MinisterJohn Major
Preceded byRoger Freeman
Succeeded byJohn Gilbert
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
1 October 2015
Life peerage
Member of Parliament
for North East Hampshire
In office
1 May 1997 – 30 March 2015
Preceded byConstituency created
Succeeded byRanil Jayawardena
Member of Parliament
for Wanstead and Woodford
In office
11 June 1987 – 8 April 1997
Preceded byPatrick Jenkin
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born (1952-08-04) 4 August 1952 (age 72)
Deal, Kent, England
Political partyConservative
Spouse
(m. 1984)
Children4
Parent
Alma mater
Websitewww.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.

  1. ^ "MP Profile". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
  2. ^ "Dissolution Peerages 2015". Gov.uk. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  3. ^ "notice 2410213". The London Gazette.