Arabins 28.1.1798 at (Horne) Tooke's (Arabin in Godwin's 1796 list) / 15.2.1800 Arabin jr at opera
Likely to have been William John Arabin (will PCC 1829 general) and his son William St Julien Arabin (will PCC 1842 serjeant of law). William John Arabin married in Dublin (Morning Chronicle 1.2.1777 "a few days ago") Henrietta dau of Sir Capel Molyneux, bart. Their dau Mary Elizabeth was baptised 1.7.1777 at St Martin in the Fields (her will PCC 1847 of West Drayton) His mother Jane Mary Arabin widow will PCC 1780. Arabin was divorced in 1789 after his wife's trial for adultery which was especially scandalous as the witnesses had seen acts of copulation in the shrubbery rather than the usual rumpled bedclothes and disordered clothing. Sir Capel's will PCC 1797 cut his daughter off with a shilling. After the divorce it was rumoured she had gone abroad and that she had married a Mr St George (not the adulterer) but she may have been the Harriet Molyneux of Bedford Place buried 17.10.1836 age 76 at St Mary Abbotts Kensington. Arabin senior was the Col Arabin of 2nd Life Guards at George St Manchester Sq and Drayton, Middlesex who subscribed to the Royal Literary Fund in 1800, and his son William St Julien was a special pleader at 12 Staples Inn 1797 (Law List) and married Mary dau of Richard Meux 11.10.1803. He was admitted to Corpus Christi College Cambridge in 1791 and died 14.12.1841 aged 66 both of which details suggest he was born about 1775 before his father's marriage. According to Alum Cant he may have been the original of Serjeant Snubbins in Pickwick Papers and he was renowned for the incoherence of his observations. In the DNB article on John Horne Tooke the story is told of Tooke's narrowly averted proposal of marriage to a miss Arabin, who may have been the Mary Elizabeth noted above, who died unmarried age 70 will PCC 20.5.1847 (though she would have been 40 years his junior). Two other Arabins in PCC wills were John Daniell Arabin, Lt Genl of Royal Irish Artillery Artillery PCC 1838 and Frederick Arabin Lt Col Royal Regt of Artillery PCC 1843
see Poland Street 1 to 9 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset
Capt Arabin ratebooks 8 Poland St 1779-81 / will PCC 1780 of Jane Mary Arabin widow mother of William John Arabin, her death announced St James Chronicle 1.2.1780 / 1781 of Moulsey, Surrey, see will of Richard Jocelyn Goodenough (QV*) / London Metropolitan Archive L/RV/014 Capt Arabin 2nd troop Horse Guards 1781 / SunFire 1785, 1789 Major William John Arabin 6 Gresse St / divorce House of Lords 1789 from Henriette Molyneux, he then married Catherine Le Merchant / his will PCC 1829 General Arabin / Old Bailey 1799 he was robbed on highway 1801 his house George St Manchester Sq broken into 1812 prosecuted a man for stealing a chicken from his house at Drayton (found not guilty)