Clan Forbes Society Blogs

The Newhall estate of Sir David Forbes is widely credited as the inspiration for the locations of the wildly popular pastoral comedy "The...

The Clan Forbes Society is exploring new ways to build its membership. Currently, the Society participates in only about 15 of the...

Archibald Forbes may be the most-decorated war correspondent to have ever lived. From the Russian Order of St Stanislaus to the Prussian...

Druminnor Castle, the original Castle Forbes, was the center of the Forbes influence that dominated Aberdeenshire for over six centuries....

Lady Mary Rigby Forbes of Newe, MBE, has passed away peacefully at the Inchmarlo Care Home. She was the wife of Major Sir Hamish Stewart...

Menie House sits on the site of a 15th century castle and has been converted into a luxury guesthouse. The Menie estate was purchased...

The Clan Forbes Society has announced the launch of a restoration project for the Keig Old Kirk on the Castle Forbes estate in Alford,...

The family of Forbes of Pitsligo is one of the three major “cadet” branches of the House of Forbes that descended from Sir John de...

Rev. Robert Forbes attempted to join the Jacobite army in 1745 – but was arrested and imprisoned for the entire coup attempt by “Bonnie...

For the first time in history, all ten hand-written volumes of the Jacobite memoir Lyon in Mourning, by Rev. Robert Forbes, Bishop of...

On March 8, 2023, Major (retd) Sir Andrew Iain Ochoncar Forbes, 13th Baronet (Bt.), peacefully passed away at home surrounded by family....

On February 15, 2023, Scottish First Minister Nicole Sturgeon announced that she would be stepping down after more than eight years in...