Forbes




I don’t know where I got this one from, but I think that it came down from the Internet during March 1998.
 

1633
Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, younger brother of Alexander, first lord Forbes, obtained that eftate by marriage with Agnes, daughter of Sir William Frafer of Philorth, and was ancestor of Sir John Forbes of Pitsligo, 1600, whose son, Alexander, was created Lord Forbes of Pitsligo, June 24, 1633: he died 1635.  His great grandson, Alexander, fourth lord Forbes of Pitsligo, engaging in the rebellion of 1745, was attainted by parliament, and his estate and honours forfeited.  He died in an advanced age, in Dec. 1762.  He had a son, John, master of Pitsligo, who would have succeeded but for the attainder; but had no issue.  Of his family, I presume, was the late Sir William Forbes, the biographer of Beattie.
 Brydges, Sir S.E. A biog. peerage of the empire of Great Britain.
 4 v. 1808-17.

  Pitsligo, Baron Forbes of, a title (attainted in 1746) in the peerage of Scotland, conferred by patent, dated at Holyrood, 24th March, 1633, to him and his heirs male whatsoever, on Alexander Forbes of Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire, descended from Sir William Forbes, second son of Alexander de Forbes, justiciary of Aberdeen, who died in 1405.  On the death of the first Lord Pitsligo, 25th October, 1635, his son, Alexander, became second lord, and was succeeded by his only son, Alexander, third lord, who died in 1691.  Of his son, Alexander, fourth and last Lord Pitsligo, celebrated for his share in the rebellion of 1745, and for his various adventures and escapes subsequent to it.  After Culloden, with Lord Ogilvy and Hunter of Burnside, he got safe to Bergen in Norway, whence the party proceeded to Sweden.  Lord Pitsligo afterwards returned to Scotland, and lurked amongst his tenantry in Aberdeenshire, till his death in 1764, at the advanced age of 85.  His sister the Hon. Mary Forbes, by her first husband, John Forbes, younger of Monymusk, was the mother of Sir William Forbes, baronet, father of the eminent banker of that name.  Lord Pitsligo's only son, John, master of Pisligo, died in
1781, without issue.
The title is claimed by Sir John Forbes of Pitsligo and Fettercairn, baronet; by Sir Charles Forbes of Newe and Edinglassi, baronet; and by John Alexander Forbes, Esq., formerly lieutenant-colonel of the 92d Highlanders.
 Anderson, W. the Scottish nation.
 3. v. 1862.

  The family of Forbes of Pitsligo and Fettercairn, which posses a baronetcy, are descended from Hon. Duncan Forbes of Corsindae, 2nd son of the 2nd Lord Forbes.  This gentleman's grandson, Duncan Forbes of Monymusk, died in 1587. His grandson, William Forbes, was created a baronet of Nova Scotia, by patent, dated 2nd April, 1626, to himself and his heirs male.  His eldest son, Sir William, 2nd baronet, had, with one daughter, an only son, Sir William, 3rd baronet, who was twice married, and had, by his first wife, Margaret, daughter of the 1st Viscount Arbuthnott, two sons and a daughter; and by his second wife, Barbara, daughter of Dalmahoy of Dalmahoy, two sons and three daughters.
  His eldest son, Sir William, fourth baronet, married Lady Jane Keith, daughter of John, earl of Kintore, and had two sons and four daughters.  John, the elder son, married the Hon. Mary Forbes of Pitsligo, daughter of Alexander third Lord Forbes of Pitsligo, and on the death of John, master of Pitsligo, in 1781, her descendants became nearest heirs and representatives of that noble family.  He died before his father, but left two sones, the elder of whom, Sir William, fifth baronet, succeeded his grandfather.  This Sir William, an advocate in Edinburgh, married Christian, daughter of John Forbes, Esq., and died in 1729.  He had two sons.
  The elder son, Sir William, sixth baronet, was the celebrated banker of Edinburgh.  As soon as he had an opportunity he purchased seventy acres of the upper barony of Pitsligo, including the old mansion-house, at that time roofless and deserted, and by the death of Mr. Forbes in 1781, he succeeded as heir to the lower barony also.  The extensive improvements which he introduced on every portion of his property greatly enhanced its value, and exhibited in a high degree his genuine patriotism and public spirit.  He married the eldest daughter of Sir James Hay of Haysont, baronet, and died in 1806.  His second son John Hay Forbes, was a lord of session, under the judicial title of Lord Medwyn.  He was born at Edinburgh in 1776, passed advocate in 1799; appointed sheriff-dupte of Perthshire in 1807, and raised to the bench in January 1825; appointed a lord of justiciary in December 1830; resigned that office in May 1847; retired from the bench in October 1852, and died in 1854.  It was chiefly through his exertions, and to the efforts of the episcopal congregation worshipping in the Cowgate chapel, that the handsome structure called St. Paul’s chapel, York Place, Edinburgh, was erected in 1818.  His eldest brother, Sir William Forbes, also greatly assisted in the building of St. John's episcopal chapel, at the west end of Princes Street of the same city.  His lordship married, in 1802, a daughter of Sir Alexander Penrose Cuming Gordon, baronet, of Altyre and Godonstown.  His eldest son, William, became an advocate. His second son, the Right Rev. Alexander Penrose Forbes, D.C.L., was consecrated bishop of Brechin in 1847, on the death of  Dr. Moir.  Born in Edinburgh in 1817, he was educated in Brasenose College, Oxfod, where he was Boden Sanscrit scholar in 1841, and received the honorary degree of doctor of civil laws.  George, the youngest son of Sir William, in 1815 was admitted a partner in the bank, and on its junction with the Glasgow Union bank he became a director of the Union bank, the new name of the firm.   The eldest son, Sir William, seventh baronet, married 19th June 1797, Williamina, sole child and heiress of Sir John Stuart Belches of Fettercairn, baronet, whose name and arms have been assumed by the family.  He had four sons and two daughters; the eldest son, William, a captain in the army died unmarried, before his father in 1826; the second son, Sir John, succeeded him; the third, Charles, became a partner in the banking firm of Sir William Forbes and Co., afterwards the Union bank; and the fourth, James David Forbes, D.C.L., was elected professor of natural philosophy in the university of Edinburgh in 1833.
  Sir John Stuart Forbes, the second son, became eighth baronet, on his father's death, 24th October, 1828.  he was born 25th September 1804, and married 14th June 1834, Lady Harriet Louisa Anne Ker, third daughter of the sixth marquis of Lothian, and had a daughter, Harriet Williamina.  He died May 27, 1856, and was succeeded by his nephew, Sir William Stuart Forbes as ninth baronet.  He was born June 16, 1835, and married July 1, 1865, Miss Marion Watts, and has issue.
 Anderson, W. The Scottish nation.
 3. v. 1862.