202 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE, Creation, Baron Forbes, in the peerage of Scotland, 1440. A Baronet, 1628. arms, Azure : three bears' heads couped, argent, muzzled, gules. (Crest, A stag's head, couped at the neck, proper. Supporters Two greyhounds, argent, collared, gules. Seat, Castle-Forbes, Whitehouse, Aberdeenshire. CJwfo, Carlton, Athenaeum. FORBES, Baron, His lordship's predecessor was his father, Walter, 18th Baron Forbes. He was b. May 29. 1798, and succeeded his father, May 4, 1843 ; he was Premier Baron of Scotland : m. 1st, Jan. 31, 1825, Horatio, /th daughter of Sir John Gregory Shaw, 5th Bart., she d. 1862, leaving issue four sons and one daughter; 2ndly, April 4, 1864, Louisa, daughter of James Ormoiid, Esq. of Abingdon; and d. May 1, 1868, having had issue from last marriage two sons. FORBES, Baroness, LOUISA, daughter of James Ormond, Esq. of Abingdon, Berkshire: m. 1864, as his 2nd wife, the 18th Baron Forbes, who d. 1868. Residence, Castle- Forbes, Whitehouse, Aberdeenshire. Forbes-Trefusis, family name of Baron Clinton. Fordwich, Viscount, title borne by Earl Cowper. FORESTER, BARON. (FORESTER.)* GEORGE CECIL WELD FORESTER, P.C., 3rd Baron. Born May 10th, 1807; suc- ceeded his brother 1874. Educated at Westminster. Entered the Royal Horse Guards Blue as Cornet 1824, became Major 1846, Lieut.-Col. 1848, Col. 1854, Major-Gen. 1863. Was Groom of the Bedchamber to George IV. and to William IV., and Comptroller of the Household 1852 and 18589. Is a Magistrate for Always the same Staffordshire. Sat as M.P. for Wenlock (C.) 1828-74. Married (1862) the Hon. Mary Anne Jervis, daughter of the 2nd Viscount St. Vincent, and widow of D. 0. Dyce-Sombre, Esq. Brothers living, Rev. Orlando Watkin Weld, heir presumptive; h. 1813 ; educated at West- minster, and at Trinity College, Cambridge (M.A. 1836) ; was Rector of Broseley, Salop 1842 59, and Vicar of Doveridge, Derbyshire, 1857 66, when he became Rector of Gedling, Nottinghamshire. Was Prebend of Hereford 1846 68 ; appointed a Prebend and Canon Resident of York 1874 . TO. 1st, 1840, Sophia Elizabeth, who d. 1872, daughter of Richard Norman, Esq., and has issue, Cecil Theodore, b. 1842, m. 1st, 1866, Emma Georgiana, daughter of Sir W. W. Dixie, 7th Bart.: m. 2ndly, 1875, Emma Maria, eldest daughter of William Tollemache, Esq. and Lady Anna Maria Tollemache. Residence, York. Emilius John Weld, b. 1815. Henry Townshend, 6. 1821. Sisters living, Anne Elizabeth, b. 1802, m. 1830, the 6th Earl of Chesterfield. Selina Louisa, m. 1844, the 3rd Earl of Bradford. Patron of three livings, Broseley, R. Willey, R. Little Wenlock, R. Shropshire.
- This nobleman has the privilege of wearing his hat in the Royal Presence, dating from
a grant given to an ancestor of the time of Henry VIII.
