House of Forbes: Notable People

Alexander, 1st Lord Forbes (1380 - 1448)

 

James, 2nd Lord Forbes, (c. 1424 - 1462)

 

William, 3rd Lord Forbes (c. 1440 – c. 1483)

 

Alexander, 4th Lord Forbes (c. 1463 – c. 1491)

 

Patrick Forbes of Corse (1564 – 1635), Bishop of Aberdeen

 

John Forbes, Second Brother Archangel (1570 – 1606), The Lord Who Wasn't

 

John Forbes / Fobes, (1608 – 1661), First Forbes in America

 

James Forbes of Connecticut (1627 – 1692)

 

Alexander Forbes of Tolquhon (c.1630 – 1702) and the Battle of Worcester

 

Alexander, 10th Lord Forbes (1641 – 1673), and the Irish Rebellion of 1641

 

Alexander Forbes - 4th Lord Pitsligo (1680 – 1762)

• Vanishing Laird Lord Pitsligo

• Jacobite Letters to Lord Pitsligo 1745 – 1746

• The Jacobite who went on the run for 16 years

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Duncan Forbes, 5th of Culloden (1685 – 1747), Lord President of the Court of Sessions

 

James, 15th Lord Forbes (1689 – 1761), and the Jacobite Uprising of 1715

 

Brig. General John Forbes (1707 – 1759)

 

Rev. Robert Forbes, Bishop of Ross and Caithness (1708–1775),  Author of The Lyon in Mourning

 

Admiral John Forbes (1714 – 1796)

 

James, 16th Lord Forbes (1725 – 1804), and the Sale of Druminnor Castle

 

Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo 6th Bart. (1739–1806)

 

John “Bombay Jock” Forbes (1743-1821)

 

Anne Forbes (1745 – 1834), Painter

 

James Forbes (1749 – 1819), Writer and Illustrator

 

Gilbert Forbes (1749 - 1790) and the Plot Against George Washington

 

William “Copperbottom” Forbes of Callendar (1756–1823)

 

James Ochoncar, 17th Lord Forbes (1765 – 1843), and the Expansion of Castle Forbes

 

Sir Charles Forbes of Newe and Edinglassie (1774–1849)

 

Sir John Forbes MD (1787 – 1861)

 

Walter, 18th Lord Forbes (1798 – 1868), and the Coldstream Guards

 

Captain Robert Bennet (Ben) Forbes (1804 –1889)

 

Katherine (Kate) Mary Furbish (1834 - 1931), Botanist

 

Edwin Austin Forbes, Artist (1839 – 1895)

• An Artist's Story of the Great War

 

Sara Forbes Bonetta (1843 –1880), West African princess and God-daughter of Queen Victoria

 

Alexander John Forbes-Leith, 1st Baron Leith of Fyvie (1847 –1925)

 

John Stuart Stuart-Forbes (1849-1876) and the Battle of Little Bighorn

 

"Honest George" William Forbes (1869 –1947), New Zealand Prime Minister

 

Josie Forbes (1871 – 1944), the Witch of Taskee

 

B.C. Forbes (1880 – 1954), Magazine Mogul

 

Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale (1883 – 1967), Actress and Feminist

 

Esther Louise Forbes (1891 – 1967), Writer

 

Dame Katherine Jane Trefusis Forbes, DBE (1899 –1971), British Women's Auxiliary Air Force

 

Athol Stanhope Forbes (1912 – 1981), WWII RAF Ace Pilot

 

Sir Ewan Forbes of Craigievar (1912 – 1991)

 

Nigel Ivan, 22nd Lord Forbes (1918 – 2013)

 

Sir Andrew Iain Ochoncar Forbes of Corse (1945 – 2023)