Harriet Arbuthnot, English diarist (born 1793)

Harriet Arbuthnot

English diarist (1793–1834)

Harriet Arbuthnot was an early 19th-century English diarist, social observer and political hostess on behalf of the Tory party. During the 1820s she was the closest woman friend of the hero of Waterloo and British Prime Minister, the 1st Duke of Wellington. She maintained a long…