Overview
William St Julien Arabin (177315 December 1841) was a British lawyer and judge who served as the Judge-Advocate-General of the Army for a three-and-a-half-month period (6 November 183821 February 1839).
Early life
Arabin was born abroad, one of many sons of Henrietta Molyneux and her husband and Gen. William John Arabin (originally from Dublin), who left him significant estates in Essex and Middlesex. His father divorced his mother in 1786 following her affair with Thomas Sutton of Moulsey.
He was descended from one of the oldest families in Provence. His Huguenot ancestor Bartholomew d'Arabin fled to Holland after the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685, and came over to England with King William III in 1688. His maternal grandparents were Sir Capel Molyneux, 3rd Baronet and the former Elizabeth East (sister of Sir William East, 1st Baronet).
Arabin attended St Paul's School, London and then studied Law at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was admitted to Inner Temple in 1793, and was called to the bar in 1801. He was appointed serjeant-at-law in 1824.
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