Harriet Arbuthnot

Harriet Arbuthnot (10 September 1793 – 2 August 1834) was an English diarist, a social observer and a political hostess on behalf of the Tory Party during the 1820s. She was the closest female friend to the hero of the Battle of Waterloo and British Prime Minister, 1st Duke of Wellington.

Harriet Arbuthnot Media

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  Portrait by John Hoppner, c. 1805

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  Hon. Henry Fane (right) MP (1739–1802), Harriet Arbuthnot's father

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  Portrait of Harriet Arbuthnot

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  Lord Castlereagh, Harriet Arbuthnot's "dearest and best friend."

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  Harriet Arbuthnot was the Duke of Wellington's "closest woman friend."

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  The Fane family plot, at Fulbeck, where Harriet Arbuthnot is buried.