Nigel Forbes, 22nd Lord Forbes

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Nigel Ivan Forbes, 22. Lord Forbes , KBE , JP , DL ( February 19, 1918 - March 5, 2013 ) was a Scottish peer , soldier, businessman and politician of the Conservative Party .

Forbes was the only son of Atholl Laurence Cunyngham Forbes, 21st Lord Forbes , and his wife Lady Mabel, daughter of Thomas Francis Anson, 3rd Earl of Lichfield . As heir apparent of his father, he held the courtesy title of Master of Forbes until 1953 . He went to Harrow School and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst .

During World War II he was a major in the Grenadier Guards and was wounded. From 1947 to 1948 he was Military Assistant to the High Commissioner of Palestine . 1953 inherited the title of nobility from his father, was elected as Scottish Representative Peer in the British House of Lords in 1955 . He took his seat in parliament on the side of the Conservative Party . Under Harold Macmillan he was Minister of State for Scotland from 1958 to 1959 . In addition to national politics, he was also a member of the District Council of Alford , Aberdeenshire from 1955 to 1958 and chairman of the River Don District Board from 1962 to 1972 . In 1955 he was Justice of the Peace in Aberdeenshire and in 1958 Deputy Lieutenant .

1960 to 1988 was Director of Grampian Television , 1964 to 1974 Deputy Chairman of Tennent Caledonian Breweries and 1975 to 1998 Chairman of Rolawn Ltd. In 1960 he was inducted into the Order of the British Empire as Knight Commander .

In 1942 he married the Honorable Rosemary Katharine, daughter of Gustavus William Hamilton-Russell, 9th Viscount Boyne . With her he has two sons and a daughter. The eldest son, Malcolm Nigel Forbes, inherited him on his death in 2013 as the 23rd Lord Forbes. He resided at Castle Forbes .

literature

  • Charles Mosley (Ed.): Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage . Volume 1, Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, Wilmington 2003, p. 474.
  • Charles Kidd, David Williamson (Eds.): Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. St Martin's Press, New York 1990.
  • Who's Who 2007. An Annual Biographical Dictionary. A. & C. Black, London 2007, ISBN 0713675276 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Forbes, Lord Forbes . In: James Balfour Paul (Ed.): The Scots Peerage . tape 4 : Fife-Hyndford . David Douglas, Edinburgh 1907, p. 42–68 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
predecessor Office successor
Atholl Forbes Lord Forbes
1953-2013 		Malcolm Forbes
personal data
SURNAME Forbes, Nigel, 22. Lord Forbes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Forbes, Nigel Ivan Forbes, 22nd Lord (full name); Forbes, Master of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British businessman, politician and member of the House of Commons (Conservative Party)
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1918
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 2013