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  Encyclopedia: Forbes family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Later, some of the Forbes family sold their China trading interests to the Russell and Company, a shipping empire which was headed by Robert Bennett Forbes, and was later associated with Yale's development and endowment.
John Forbes Kerry is a U.S. Senator and was a candidate for President of the U.S. Though he is a beneficiary of several Forbes family trusts (c.
Rosemary Forbes Kerry (October 27, 1913 - November 14, 2002), born Rosemary Isabel Forbes in Paris, was a daughter of James Grant Forbes of the Forbes family of China and Boston.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Forbes-family   (3003 words)

  
 Clan Forbes
John, eighth Lord Forbes, was one of the five noblemen appointed by commission from the king, dated 25th July 1594, lieutenants of the northern counties, for the suppression of the rebellion of the popish Earls of Huntly and Errol.
Forbes’ lady, a daughter of Campbell of Cawdor, refused to do this without her husband’s instructions, and thereupon the Gordons fired the house, and she and her family and attendants, twenty-seven persons, were burnt within.
Among the cadet branches of the family it is uncertain whether that of Pitsligo or that of Craigievar was the elder, there being a doubt as to which of their ancestors, Duncan and Patrick respectively, was second son and third son of the second Baron Forbes.
www.electricscotland.com /webclans/dtog/forbes2.html   (6185 words)

  
 Bambooweb: Forbes family
John Forbes Kerry is a U.S. Senator and currently a candidate for President of the U.S. Though he is a beneficiary of several Forbes family trusts (c.
Francis Murray Forbes, (founder of Cabot, Cabot and Forbes)
However, Bertie Forbes, born in New Deer, Scotland, is a descendant of the Forbes clan in Scotland.
www.bambooweb.com /articles/f/o/Forbes_family.html   (1163 words)

  
 Forbes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Forbes magazine is an American business and financial magazine founded in 1917 by B.C. Forbes.
Forbes 500, a list of largest companies taking into account market capitalization, revenue, income and assets (this is differs from the Fortune 500 which is based only on revenues).
Forbes 400, a list of the richest people in the United States.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Forbes   (246 words)

  
 Culloden House Hotel, Forbes Family History, Scotland
This Duncan Forbes, the progenitor of a long line of Duncan Forbes of Culloden, was descended from the family of Forbes of Tolquhoun on his father's side, and of the Keiths, Earls Marischal of Scotland, on his mother's side.
The family was recompensed in 1689 by the Scottish Parliament with a grant of the privilege of distilling whisky from the barley of their property at Ferintosh in Ross-shire free of all duty.
Duncan Forbes the lawyer and Lord President of the Court of Sessions, was the second son of the father's marriage to Mary Innes, the daughter of Sir Harry Innes, of Innes House, near Elgin.
www.cullodenhouse.co.uk /home/history_three.htm   (979 words)

  
 Forbes family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Forbes family lived and traded in China at first due to a family connection with the Perkins family.
William Cameron Forbes used his wealth to become Governor General of the Philippines.
His niece Ruth Forbes Paine Young tapped her Forbes family inheritance to finance the International Peace Academy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Forbes_family   (1331 words)

  
 Forbes Genealogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Plundered by Highland caterons, Forbes of Corse vowed to build 'such a house as thieves will need to knock at ere the enter,' and Corse Castle near Lumphannan (1581) was the result; the power and wealth of the Toloqhon family is shown by the massive ruins of their castle near Tarves and Craigiever itself.
Forbes-from the lands of Forbes in Aberdineshire: A charter in the Woods edition of Douglas' Peerage which says that Alexander Earl of Buchan granted to Fergus, son of John Forbes, that the lands of Forbes have been misread.
Annabel Forbess was buried in the Kirk of Dysart, 1589.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/7688/Genealogy.html   (1257 words)

  
 Family Ties - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Family control is seen in 141 of the 403 SandP 500 companies they examined (ignoring heavily regulated utilities and banks) and accounts for 35% of the SandP's $10.5 trillion market value.
The average equity stake by the families is 18%, their share of board seats three times that and the average duration of their stakes 75 years.
Family insiders are presumably less likely than hired hands to be motivated to puff up earnings in the short term in order to collect an options windfall.
www.forbes.com /celebrities2004/146.html   (1396 words)

  
 Forbes family putting rare eggs on auction block
Nine ornate, jeweled eggs given by czars to family members in the late 19th and early 20th centuries are to be auctioned along with three Kelch eggs and 180 other Faberge treasures.
The Forbes collection of Imperial eggs is the second-largest in the world, after that of the Armory Museum in the Kremlin, which has 10.
Forbes began collecting the items in the 1960s and continued until his death in 1990.
www.suntimes.com /output/lifestyles/cst-nws-eggs11.html   (307 words)

  
 Descendants of Joseph Forbes
LAURIA JANE FORBES was born Jun 16, 1861 in Tipton Co, TN, and died Mar 29, 1924 in Tipton Co, TN.
SHADRACK A. FORBES was born Mar 30, 1875 in Tipton Co, TN, and died Dec 25, 1968 in Tipton Co, TN.
CLAUDE MILTON FORBES was born Mar 08, 1906 in Tipton Co, TN, and died Jun 14, 1999 in Tipton Co, TN.
www.tnfraziers.com /desforbes.html   (4458 words)

  
 Arts Gallery
NEW YORK - The Forbes family's Faberge collection - 12 eggs and an assortment of other gems - will be auctioned in the spring and could fetch up to $90 million, Sotheby's said.
Malcolm S. Forbes, the former publisher and editor of Forbes magazine, began collecting the items in the 1960s and continued until his death in 1990.
Forbes began his Faberge collection with the 1960 purchase of a gold cigarette case.
www.artukraine.com /egg/faberge_easter2.htm   (423 words)

  
 Luxury gifts from the Castle Forbes Collection
Castle Forbes was built in 1815 by my great-great-great grandfather, the 17th Lord Forbes, Scotland’s premier Lord and Chief of the clan Forbes.
The gift collection is based on themes from within the castle itself; the acorn motif on the hand made pewter lid for the candles is taken from the plaster frieze in the main drawing room and the pewter rose bowls are copies of a set of silver monteiths.
I am particularly proud of the association that the Forbes family in the USA and Scotland have formed under the Forbes Collection™.
www.castleforbes.co.uk   (195 words)

  
 Bambooweb: Les Essarts Forbes family estate
Shanghai, China), a member of the Forbes family of China and Boston who settled in Brittany at Les Essarts.
He is the grandfather of two famous politicians, Brice Lalonde, a socialist and Green Party candidate for President of France in 1981, and John Forbes Kerry, a Democrat candidate for President of the United States of America.
Many of the Forbes family have socialized during summers spent in Brittany at Les Essarts.
www.bambooweb.com /articles/l/e/Les_Essarts__Forbes_family_estate.html   (107 words)

  
 Forbes Mitchell Family
Lady Flora was also a loyal adherent of the Royal House of Stuart and at the time of her marriage she was one of the ladies-in-waiting on the Princess Sobieskie, wife of the Pretender, claiming to be King James the VIII of Scotland and III of England.
My great-grandmother afterward got Prince Charles Edward Stuart to use what she considered his royal prerogative to confirm the prefixing of the surname to Forbes to that as the surname to be borne by the family ever after as a means of perptualtin her own surname, and handing it down along with her property.
Our family thus lost their place in the ranks of the nobility and landed gentry of Scotland, where our ancestors had held an honourable position from the time of Robert the Bruce, before the Stuarts had succeeded to the throne of Scotland.
homepage.ntlworld.com /mary.clark5/page2.htm   (591 words)

  
 Forbes.com: Family Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The family invests in part through Pitcairn Trust, which normally doesn't take accounts under $2 million, and charges 1% of assets annually to manage its smallest accounts.
The family holds a dinner at least four times a year to discuss both investments and charity.
He convinced the family to take a controlling stake in a small firm making titanium wheelchairs and then took a senior position there.
www.forbes.com /free_forbes/2001/1210/142_2.html   (614 words)

  
 Forbes Museum in The NYC Insider: an insider's guide to New York City   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The ground floor of the Forbes building houses one of the most enchanting museums we've encountered.
The exhibits at the Forbes Magazine Galleries are made possible by years of collecting by the Forbes family.
Forbes has the largest collection of Imperial Eggs in the world and only Britain's Queen Elizabeth owns more Faberge items than Forbes.
www.theinsider.com /nyc/hidden/004forbe.htm   (516 words)

  
 WELCOME TO THE FORBES FAMILY HISTORY GROUP
The Forbes Family History Group Inc was founded in March 1986.
The Forbes Family History Group Research Room is located in Harold Street, Forbes (at the back of the Forbes Public Library).
Membership of the Forbes Family History Group is $20.00 per year.
forbesfhg.tripod.com   (531 words)

  
 MyClan.com : Clan Forbes : Clan History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Overlooking the Don today stands Castle Forbes, built in 1815 by James Ochoncar, seventeenth Lord Forbes, and still occupied by the direct descendants of Duncan Forbes upon whom the original lands were conferred in a charter dated 1271 by Alexander III.
However, the damage to relations between the Forbes and Gordons was irreparable, and for the remainder of the century the feud reduced Aberdeenshire to an unparalleled state of lawlessness.
James Ochoncar, the seventeenth Lord Forbes, was an officer in the Coldstream Regiment of Footguards for twenty-six years, rising to the rank of general, having served as second-in-command of the British forces in Sicily in 1808 before commanding the Cork and Eastern districts in Ireland.
www.myclan.com /clans/Forbes_37/default.php   (727 words)

  
 Family Times - History Needn't Be Dull
Robert Forbes was an Irishman who lived in Canada and fought for England against General Benedict Arnold at the Battle of Quebec.
Forbes was pregnant, she was eager to follow her husband to Maine with their five children who were ages fifteen months to thirteen years.
To expedite the trip, the guides persuaded Forbes to build a hut for his family and leave them there so that they could travel unhampered to find an Indian who knew a better way to travel the rest of the way.
www.homeeducator.com /FamilyTimes/articles/10-5Article10.htm   (752 words)

  
 FamilyReunion.com® | 1 - 5 of 31 Reunion Calendar Search Results
The Forbes Family Reunion will be held the weekend of Oct 2nd & 3rd, 1999 in Wyandotte, Oklahoma, near Grove, OK. We would like to hear from anyone who may be a descendant of Jacob and Nancy Forbes or Jacob and Eleanor May Forbes.
Family Reunion for the discounted rates, deadline is May 15.
The Layson Family Reunion is always held on the third Saturday in September.
www.familyreunion.com /cgi/calendar.cgi?inclexp=&sort=&keywords=HARP   (298 words)

  
 2-4. The Forbes Family- continued
In 1836, Stephen Forbes' parents, John and Anne Sawyer Forbes, arrived from New York and settled in a large log house they built above Bourbon Springs at the bend of the river.
They brought with them a group of 22 people--married sons and son-in-laws and daughters and daughter-in laws and grandchildren - all of whom lived in the log house or nearby.
Stephen Forbes, at one time or another, owned title to most of the Riverside area, although he did not always live there.
www.riverside-illinois.com /images/historyofriverside/es-04.htm   (115 words)

  
 Forbes Family Research
FORBES - McCORKLE RESEARCH - York Co, SC FORBES - McCORKLE RESEARCH - York Co, SC ------------------------------------------------------------ According to the church records of Ebenezer Church, Rock Hill, SC.
McCorkle Know all once by these presence that we, Ann McCorkle ^, Archibald Barron & John Forbes (space) of York County & State of S. Carolina are held and firmly bound to William Burton, Wm.
John Forbis Senior, I believe them to render him partially incapable of making a compentant support for himself and family who are dependant upon his exertions, his extream age taken into consideration with the balance of his wounds renders him more incapable of that to make a substance.
www.tnfraziers.com /data/forbes/forbes.html   (528 words)

  
 CTV.ca - Forbes family to sell Faberge eggs collection- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
— The Forbes family's Faberge collection -- 12 eggs and an assortment of other gems -- will be auctioned in the spring and could fetch up to $90 million, Sotheby's said.
The Forbes family said the sale would free them from the upkeep of the collection and would "allow each of us to pursue our own individual interests."
The Forbes family has had a relationship with Sotheby's for decades, auction house spokeswoman Patty Fox said.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1073655832999_28?hub=Entertainment&subhub=PrintStory   (458 words)

  
 Forbes Family Practice Brochure p9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
WPAHS The Western Pennsylvania Hospital - Forbes Regional Campus is a 277-bed, full-service acute-care hospital with complete medical and surgical care and specialities in obstetrics, gynecology, pediatrics, mental health, oncology, emergency medicine and rehabilitation.
West Penn - Forbes Regional Campus has earned respect for its contributions as a community-teaching hospital, and its emergency department is among the busiest in Western Pennsylvania.
The West Penn - Forbes Regional Campus, site of Forbes Family Practice Residency Program, is located in Monroeville, a residential community 14 miles east of downtown Pittsburgh.
www.asri.edu /FRH/forbintr/page9.htm   (204 words)

  
 Pravda.RU:Sotheby's advises Forbes family to sell Faberge collection to Viktor Vekselberg
Sotheby's receded from its rules and advised the Forbes family to sell the collection of the Faberge jewels before the April auction "for the sake of the client's interests," Sotheby's spokesperson Patty Fox told RIA Novosti.
On her part, Forbes senior vice president Monie Begley has ruled out the possibility to officially announce the cost of the deal.
According to Begley, the new owner is to decide if founder Malcolm Forbes' name should be preserved in the title of the collection.
english.pravda.ru /world/2004/02/07/52175_.html   (257 words)

  
 Forbes Family Practice Brochure p1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
At West Penn - Forbes Regional Campus, we affirm that the patient is a whole person whose unique physical and psychological makeup presents an equally unique set of needs.
The Forbes Family Practice Residency Program provides an optimal educational environment in which you can develop your potential as an individual, physician, teacher, and learner.
When you complete Forbes Family Practice Residency Program, we believe that you will be able to competently manage most of your patients independently, yet know the appropriate times and methods for consults and referrals to other specialists.
www.asri.edu /FRH/forbintr/page1.htm   (261 words)

  
 James Grant Forbes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Forbes was a successful international lawyer and banker.
He married Margaret Tyndal Winthrop, who came from a family with deep roots in Massachusetts history going back to the John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Forbes is the father of Rosemary Forbes Kerry and the maternal grandfather of 2004 U.S. Presidential candidate Democrat John Kerry and of the 1991 French Presidential candidate Green Brice Lalonde.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/J/James-Grant-Forbes.htm   (258 words)

  
 Forbes Clan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Lord Forbes, K.B.E. Clan Seats: Castle Forbes and Drumminor Castle, Aberdeenshire Tryst: Culquhonny Castle The Gathering Shout: 'Lonach', the name of a hill in the district of Strathdon Gaelic Name for Forbes: Foirbeis The Clan Plant Badge: the common broom.
Tolquhoun Castle The ruined castle of Tolquhoun, near Tarves, was built in the 1580s by a very old branch of the Forbes family who acquired their lands in 1420.
Castle Craigevar was built in 1626 by "Danzig" William Forbes, a timber merchant, and bought by benefactors from the Forbes-Sempill family for the National Trust of Scotland in 1963.
people.arsc.edu /~lforbes/clan.html   (740 words)

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