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James Norwich Arbuthnot, Baron Arbuthnot of Edrom, PC (born 4 August 1952) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was returned as 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, before being nominated as a Life Peer in the Dissolution Peerages List 2015 of August 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dissolution-peerages-2015 )〕 Created ''Baron Arbuthnot of Edrom, of Edrom in the County of Berwick'', on 1 October 2015,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/2410213 )〕 Lord Arbuthnot sits on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords. ==Early life== Arbuthnot was born in Deal, Kent, the son of Sir John Arbuthnot MBE TD, MP for Dover between 1950 and 1964, and Margaret Jean Duff.〔(The Peerage.com - Rt. Hon. James Norwich Arbuthnot )〕 He was educated at Wellesley House School in Broadstairs and Eton College, where he was Captain of School, before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a Law degree (MA) in 1974. Arbuthnot was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1975 and became a practising barrister. An active member of the Chelsea Conservative Association, he was elected a Councillor of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in 1978 remaining a Councillor until being elected to the House of Commons in 1987. In 1980 he became the Vice-Chairman of the Chelsea Conservative Association. Arbuthnot contested the Cynon Valley seat, in the Labour heartland of industrial South Wales, at the 1983 general election and was defeated by Ioan Evans. A year later in 1984, Evans died and Arbuthnot fought the resulting by-election, but he was again defeated by the Labour candidate, Ann Clwyd. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Arbuthnot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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