Alexander Arbuthnot
Alexander Arbuthnot printer's device, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress
Died	1 September 1585
Nationality	Scottish
Occupation	Printer
Spouse	Agnes Pennycuik
Parent(s)	John Arbuthnot, Sr

Alexander Arbuthnot (died 1 September 1585) was an early printer in Edinburgh, Scotland, the fourth son of John Arbuthnot Sr in Portertown and of Legasland.

He printed the first edition of George Buchanan's first History of Scotland in 1582.^[1] He married one Agnes Pennycuick and died intestate.^[2]

• Arbuthnot, Mrs P S-M (1920). Memories of the Arbuthnots. George Allen & Unwin.
• Sir James Balfour Paul, ed. (1908). The Scots Peerage. founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's 'Peerage of Scotland'.
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Arbuthnot, Alexander". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

• Arbuthnot family tree^[usurped]