Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard

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"Man of the Day": Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard
(caricature by Leslie Ward (Spy) in Vanity Fair , July 1, 1908)

Bernard Arthur William Patrick Hastings Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard KP , GCVO , PC , PC (I) ( September 17, 1874 - September 10, 1948 ) was a British nobleman who was a member of the House of Lords between 1895 and 1948 and was from 1915 to 1922 the post of Lord Lieutenant of Longford County . From 1874 to 1889 he held the courtesy title Viscount Forbes .

Life

Family origin

Forbes was the eldest son of George Forbes, 7th Earl of Granard and his second wife, Frances Mary Petre, daughter of William Petre, 12th Baron Petre .

From his father's first marriage to Jane Colclough Morgan, whose father Hamilton Knox Grogan Morgan had represented the constituency of Wexford County as a member of the House of Commons between 1847 and 1852 , there were two elderly stepsisters. Sophia Maria Elizabeth Forbes was the wife of Henry Christopher Grattan-Bellew, 3rd Baronet , who was among other things Deputy Lieutenant of County Galway for some time in 1922 . The second oldest stepsister Adelaide Jane Frances Forbes was married to Lord Maurice FitzGerald, a son of Charles FitzGerald, 4th Duke of Leinster and from 1881 to 1901 Lord Lieutenant of Wexford County.

His older sister from his father's second marriage was Margaret Mary Theresa Forbes, whose husband George Savile was a son of John Savile, 4th Earl of Mexborough and served as a captain in the Army Remount Service . His younger brother Fergus Reginald George Forbes died on February 18, 1876, less than a month after his birth. Another brother was Reginald George Benedict Forbes, who served as a captain in the Gordon Highlanders Line Infantry Regiment and died on May 20, 1908 at the age of 30. His younger sister Eva Mary Margaret Forbes was married to Brigadier General John Percival de Nicolay, 13th Comte de Cherbourg . His third youngest brother Donald Alexander Forbes served as a colonel in the 99th (Buckinghamshire and Berkshire) Brigade , while the second youngest brother Bertram Aloysius Forbes was a lieutenant colonel in the Royal Irish Rifles Infantry Regiment . His youngest brother Fergus George Arthur Forbes served as a captain in the Royal Irish Regiment , but fell at the beginning of the First World War on August 23, 1914.

Earl of Granard and military career

After the death of his father George Arthur Hastings Forbes, 7th Earl of Granard, he inherited on August 25, 1889 at the age of almost 15 years the hereditary titles ( Hereditary Peerage ) created in the Peerage of Ireland as 8th Earl of Granard and the associated title as 8th Viscount of Granard, in the County of Longford , as 8th Baron Clanehugh, in the County of Longford and the title created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia 1628 as 9th Baronet Forbes, of Castle Forbes . By the title of 3rd Baron Granard of Castle Donnington, in the County of Leicester , created by a letters patent dated February 24, 1806 in the Peerage of the United Kingdom , which was also inherited and he was 21 on September 17, when he reached the age of majority at the time 1895 Member of the House of Lords , to which he was a member for almost 53 years until his death on September 10, 1948.

Forbes began his military training in the 3rd Battalion of the 1896 Line Infantry - Regiment Gordon Highlanders and was there on December 14, 1896 to lieutenant ( Second Lieutenant transported). He was then from 1896 to 1900 extraordinary adjutant ( aide-de-camp ) of the Viceroy of India Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin . During this use he was on February 16, 1898 first lieutenant ( Lieutenant ) of the Gordon Highlanders . He took part in the Second Boer War between 1900 and 1902 and was promoted to first lieutenant in the Scots Guards on July 20, 1901 , to which he had changed on November 29, 1899. After he was transferred to staff service on February 1, 1904, he was with effect from February 1, 1904 to 1905 aide-de-camp of the commander of the Aldershot Command's 1st Infantry Division of the 1st Corps , Major General Arthur Paget . He then became a captain in the Scots Guards on January 11, 1905 and served in this unit until May 9, 1905, before he was finally released from duty on August 23, 1907 without pay.

As the successor to Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore held between 1905 and his replacement by Maurice Towneley-O'Hagan, 3rd Baron O'Hagan on November 1, 1907 the post of Lord-in-Waiting . At the same time he was from 1906 to 1909 Deputy Post Minister ( Assistant Postmaster-General ). On September 6, 1907, he took over from Osbert Molyneux, 6th Earl of Sefton for the first time the post of Supreme Equestrian of the Royal Household ( Master of the Horse ) and practiced this until his replacement by Edwyn Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield on June 9, 1915.

Fordes, who was on November 2, 1907 a member of the Privy Council (PC), became a lieutenant colonel in the 8th Battalion of the City of London Regiment on September 17, 1908 . and became Knight of St. Patrick (KP) on May 21, 1909. Later, on November 21, 1911, he was transferred to the general reserve as captain of the Scots Guards .

At the beginning of the First World War he was on September 1, 1914 as a lieutenant colonel in command of the 5th Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment. On June 21, 1915 he was beaten to the Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO). Due to his military service in the Battle of Gallipoli within the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF) under the command of General Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton in September 1915, he was mentioned in the war report on January 28, 1916 ( Mentioned in dispatches ). After serving as Secretary of the British Armed Forces in Thessaloniki on January 15, 1916 , he became Lord Lieutenant of Longford County on August 26, 1916, assuming a position that had existed since the death of Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford on August 21 , 1916 . August 1915 was vacant. Most recently he was as a captain with the honorary rank of a lieutenant colonel from March 21, 1917 to July 20, 1917 Assistant on the staff of the Military Secretary of the British Army ( Military Secretary ), Lieutenant General Francis Davis , with the salary of a deputy assistant adjutant general ( Deputy Assistant Adjutant General ). With effect from July 12, 1917, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel.

Irish Free State, other engagements and honors

After the end of the First World War, Forbes became involved in addition to his function as Lord Lieutenant of Longford County as Chairman of the Irish Food Control Committee ( Irish Food Control Committee ) and in this function also became a member of the Privy Council of Ireland in 1918. He held the function of Lord Lieutenant until the establishment of the Irish Free State on December 6, 1922. He then became a nominated member of the Senate of the Free State of Ireland in 1922 and was a member until 1934.

As the successor to Thomas Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath , Forbes took over the position of Master of the Horse for the second time in 1924 , which he now exercised until he was replaced by Henry Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort in 1936. Upon reaching the age limit of 55 years, he resigned on September 17, 1929 from the reserve officer service as Lieutenant Colonel of the Scots Guards . He was also the Royal Controller of the Ascot Horse Races ( HM Comptroller at Ascot ) between 1936 and 1945 .

In 1936 he dissolved Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale as chairman of the football club Arsenal FC and held this position until he was replaced in 1939 by Robin Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 8th Marquess of Londonderry . On May 12, 1937 he was one of the participants in the procession for the coronation of King George VI. and his wife Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon , as the bearer of the coat of arms of Ireland in the coat of arms of the United Kingdom .

Forbes was also a member of the Council of State of Ireland in 1946 . He has also been honored with numerous international orders and awards and received, among other things, the Officer's Cross of the Order of the White Eagle of Serbia , the Knightly Order of St. Mauritius and Lazarus , the Order of Christ of Portugal , the Order of the Star of Ethiopia , the Star of Romania , the Order of Pius , the Grand Cross of the Isamil Order of Egypt , on October 10, 1918 the commanding class of the Order of the Redeemer of Greece , the commanding class of the military Order of Merit of Spain , the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor , the Dannebrogorden , the Grand Cross of the Orden de Isabel la Católica , the North Star Order of Sweden and the Order of Charles III.

Marriage and offspring

Beatrice Mills, Countess of Granard (1910)

Forbes married on January 14, 1909 Beatrice Mills, a subsidiary of US-based entrepreneur Ogden Mills , among other English thoroughbred - racehorses bred, and granddaughter of the banker and philanthropist Darius Ogden Mills . Her twin sister Gladys Mills Phipps was also involved in horse racing at an early age and was considered the "first lady of the turf" , while her younger brother Ogden L. Mills was a Republican member of the US House of Representatives from 1921 to 1927 for New York and between 1932 and 1933 US Treasury Secretary .

From this marriage two daughters and two sons were born. The eldest daughter Moira Mary Forbes was first married between 1934 and the divorce in 1936 with Louis de Brantes, Comte de Brantes, and in 1942 with Theo Rossi di Montelera, Conte di Montelera. The second eldest daughter, Eileen Beatrice Forbes, was married to John Crichton-Stuart, 5th Marquess of Bute , from 1947 until his death in 1956 .

After the death of his father, the eldest son Arthur Patrick Hastings Forbes inherited the title of 9th Earl of Granard and the associated titles and was also temporarily director of the mineral oil company Texaco , the food manufacturer Nabisco and the alcohol manufacturer Martini & Rossi . The youngest son John Forbes was captain of the Royal Air Force and father of Peter Arthur Edward Hastings Forbes , who was given the title of 10th Earl on November 21, 1992 after the death of his uncle Arthur Forbes, 9th Earl of Granard, who died without male descendants of Granard and its subordinate titles.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  15. ↑ KNIGHTS OF ST. PATRICK in Leigh Rayment Peerage
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  25. ↑ Earl of Granard on the homepage of the Seanad Éireann
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  30. ^ The award of the Officer's Cross of the Order of the White Eagle took place in November and December 1915 because of his services to the Salonikifront .
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  33. ↑ On April 21, 1917, he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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predecessor Office successor
George Forbes Earl of Granard
1889-1948 		Arthur Forbes
personal data
SURNAME Forbes, Bernard, 8th Earl of Granard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Forbes, Bernard Arthur William Patrick Hastings, 8th Earl of Granard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British peer, politician and officer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1874
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1948