128 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. her (who d. 26th Aisril, 1884, aged 75) had a daughter. Harriet Williauiina, m. 29th Jnly, 1858, to Charles Henry Eolle, 20th and present Lord Clinton ; and d. 4th July, 1869, leaving issue. Sir John assumed the additional surname and arms of HEPBrRN, on the death of Alexander Hepburn Murray Belshes, as heir of entail to the barony of Inverniay, and as heir-at-law to the estate of Balmanno, both CO. Perth. Sir John d. 27th May, 1866, and was s. by his nephew. Sir William Stuaet FoEBEB, the 9th ard present baronet. Creation— ^Ist March, 1626. Arms — Quarterly : 1st and 4th, az., on a chev., arg., between three bears' heads, couped of the last, muzzled, gules, a man's heart ppr., for FoiiBES of Monthtjsk, 2nd, counterquartered, 1st and 4th; az., three bears' heads, couped, arg., muzzled, gules, for FoEBES OF PiTSLiGO : 2ndand 3rd, az., three f rases, arg., for Feaseb: 3rd, or, a bend, gu., surmounted by a fess chequy, az. and arg., in chief a crescent of the third, for Stuaet OF Fetteecaibn. Crest — Issuing out of a baron's coi-onet a dexter hand holding a scymitar ppr., motto over, " Nee timide nee lemere," forFoEBES. Supporters — Two bears, ppr. Muifo — Fax mentis honestse gloria. Seats — Pitsligo, co. Aberdeen ; and Fetter- cairn House, CO. Kincardine, Scotland. — Resi- dence — Carterton, Wellington, New Zea- land. dFortes xif ^j>trmp. FORBES, HIS HONOUR DAVID GRANT, of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, district court judge, B.A. (Trinity College, Cam- bridge), barrister-at-law, b. 19th May, 1819 ; m. 24th November, 1846, Kate Augusta, daughter of Henry Boucher Bowerman, Esq., by Marian Willans, his wife, and has issue, I. Francis Henry, b. 27th March, 1848 ; m. Jane Robertson, and has issue three daughters. II. George Holden, b. 2nd March, 1856. HI. Charles Farquhar, b. 20th December, 1867. I. Kate Augusta, 6. 23rd May, 1852 ; in. James Graham Mitchell, Esq., but has no issue. II. Sophia Agnes, b. 24th June, 1862. HmtactE. Alistee Cam Fobbes, youngest son of SiE John Fobbes, of that ilk, was of Brux in right of his wife, the daughter and heir of Sir Henry Cameron, by whom he had two sons, John, d. s.p., and DrNCAN Fobbes, who had three sons : I, William, of Little Kildrommie, who had three sons, Alexander, of Toure, John, of Barns, and William, of Ardmurdo ; II, John ; and one other, who went into the Church. The second son, John Fobbes, had four sons : James, killed at Pinkie, William, Duncan, and John. William Foebes, of Barns, who .?. 5th December, 1550, received a charter under the great seal from Queen Maet of the lands of Barns. He had two sons, Alexander ; and Geoege, to whom he gave Skellater, co. Aberdeen. Geoege Fobbes, of Skellater, was «. by his son, William Fobbes, who was a soldier, and joined Huntley's army, the rest of the clan siding with the Covenanters against the king. It was in consequence of this that he took the motto Sohis inter plurimos, since re- tained. He left three sons, Geoege, who s. his father, William, and John. Geobge Fobbes, Esq., in. Isabel, daugh- ter of Forbes of New, celebrated for her beauty, and by whom he had three sons, George, his successor; Lachlan, to whom he gave the lands of Edenglassie; and Nathaniel. Lachlan Fobbes, Esq., had many sons, among them, Geoege Fobbes, Esq., M.D., who went to Bermuda, m. there to Mary Tucker, and had two sons, Francis William (Sie), and George. Hon. Sie Francis William Forbes, Knt., of Leitrim, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, first chief justice of the colony of New South Wales, b. in the Bermudas in 1784, and proceeded to England at an early age for his education ; called to the bar in 1812, and the following year was appointed attorney and advocate-general at Bermuda, three years later chief justice of Newfound- land, and on 1st June, 1823, first chief justice of New South Wales; arrived in Sydney with his family, 5th March, 1824; appointed
