Lord Forbes

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Lord Forbes
Lord Forbes coat of arms.svg
Creation datecirca 1436
Created by James II
Peerage Peerage of Scotland
First holderAlexander de Forbes
Present holderMalcolm Nigel Forbes, 23rd Lord Forbes
Heir apparentGeordie Malcolm Andrew Forbes
Seat(s) Forbes Castle, Alford, Aberdeenshire
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Lord Forbes is the senior Lordship of Parliament in the Peerage of Scotland.

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The title was created sometime after 1436 for Alexander de Forbes, feudal baron of Forbes. The precise date of the creation is not known, but in a Precept dated July 12, 1442, he is already styled Lord Forbes. Brown's 1834 Peerage of Scotland gives a creation year of 1440. Alexander's descendant, the twelfth Lord, served as Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire. His great-grandson, the seventeenth Lord, was a general in the Army and sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish representative peer from 1806 to 1843. His son, the eighteenth Lord, fought at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. [3]

He was succeeded by his son, the nineteenth Lord. He was a Scottish Representative Peer from 1874 to 1906. His nephew, the twenty-first Lord, served as a Scottish Representative Peer between 1917 and 1924. The latter's son, the twenty-second Lord, sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer from 1955 to 1963, when all Scottish peers were given an automatic seat in the House of Lords, and served in the Conservative administration of Harold Macmillan as Minister of State for Scotland from 1958 to 1959. [4] The title is currently held by his son, Malcolm Nigel, the twenty-third Lord Forbes, who succeeded in 2013. Lord Forbes is Chief of Clan Forbes.

Hon. Patrick Forbes, third son of the second Lord Forbes, was the ancestor of both the Earls of Granard and the Forbes baronets of Craigievar. Also, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander Forbes, 1st Lord Forbes.

The family seat is Castle Forbes near Alford, Aberdeenshire.

Numbering matter

John Forbes (1570–1606), the elder surviving son of John Forbes, 8th Lord Forbes, became a friar and seemingly abandoned his claim to the Lordship. He died later in the same year (1606) as his father and there would be dispute over whether to count his brief succession in the numbering of Lordships. The question was most recently (As of 2023) settled in 1955, stating that he was not to be considered a Lord Forbes and his younger brother would be their father's immediate successor as Arthur Forbes, 9th Lord Forbes. [5]

Lords Forbes (c. 1444)

Castle Forbes, Aberdeenshire - the family seat Castle Forbes.jpg
Castle Forbes, Aberdeenshire - the family seat

The heir apparent is the present holder's grandson, Geordie Malcolm Andrew Forbes (b. 2010), styled Master of Forbes

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    References

    1. ↑ The Scots Peerage
    2. ↑ Brown, Peter, (publisher), The Peerage of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1834, p. 170.
    3. ↑ Anderson, William (1867). The Scottish Nation. Vol. iv. Edinburgh. p. 228.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
    4. ↑ Kidd, Charles, & Williamson, David (editors), Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, New York, St Martin's Press, 1990.
    5. ↑ "John Forbes - The Lord Who Wasn't" . Retrieved 15 November 2023.
    6. 1 2 3 4 "Representative peers - Scotland". Leigh Rayment's Peerage. Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
    7. ↑ "John Forbes - The Lord Who Wasn't" . Retrieved 15 November 2023.
    8. ↑ "Forbes of Corse". Register. The Times. No. 74045. London. 16 March 2023. col 5, p. 55.

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