FORBES, Arthur 9th (10th) Lord Forbes ¹

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  Research Notes:

9TH or 10TH LORD Forbes

In some presentations of this family, the Capuchin monk, John Forbes, the son of John Forbes and Lady Margaret Gordon, is not counted as the 9th Lord Forbes. This has the effect of putting all the following Lord Forbes one place out in their designation.

The 2023 Wikipedia article states:

" The question was most recently (As of 2023) settled in 1955, stating that he (John Forbes) was not to be considered a Lord Forbes and his younger brother would be their father's immediate successor as Arthur Forbes, 9th Lord Forbes.[5]"

[5} "John Forbes - The Lord Who Wasn't". Retrieved 15 November 2023 from https://www.clan-forbes.org/people/john-forbes---the-lord-who-wasn't " ²

Arthur married Jean ELPHINSTONE, daughter of Alexander ELPHINSTONE 4th Lord Elphinstone, Lord High Treasurer and Jane LIVINGSTON, 5 February 1599(1600) in Edinburgh, Scotland.¹ (Jean ELPHINSTONE was born on 17 February 1582 ³ and died after 1628 ³.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Arthur (Forbes), as seen in his father's accounts, was married on February 5th, 1600, to Jean Elphinstone, second daughter of Alexander, Master of and afterwards fourth Lord Elphinstone. Of this wedding it is recorded in the Diary of Robert Borrell, Burgess of Edinburgh, 1532-1605, MS. in the Advocates' Library, that the gaieties accompanying it were so great that the beginning of the Church's fast of Lent had to be postponed. The fasts and feasts of the Church were already beginning to be of less importance in a Scotland which followed the Protestant faith."

from House of Forbes ¹