Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. James Norwich Arbuthnot, MP (born 4 August 1952) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Hampshire. Arbuthnot was born in Deal, Kent, the son of Sir John Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet and Margaret Jean Duff. He was educated at Wellesley House School in Broadstairs, Eton College, where he was Captain of school, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a law degree in 1974.