James Arbuthnot

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.