FORBES, Patrick Bishop of Caithness, Right Reverend Mr
- Born: About 1610, Alford parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
- Marriage (1): ERSKINE,
- Marriage (2): SCOUGAL, Katherine
- Died: 1679
- Buried: Kirkwall Cathedral, Orkney, Scotland
General Notes:
(in Caithness Bishops section in 1662)
'PATRICK FORBES, born about 1610, third son of John F., min. of Alford, and nephew of Patrick F., Bishop of Aberdeen; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1631) ; became a preacher to the army in Holland; is said to have been present at the Glasgow Assembly 29th Nov. 1638 and one of the first who signed the National Covenant [the accounts vary— one mentioning a Patrick, the other a John F.]; min. to the Scots congregation at Delft, Holland, 1641-3, and chaplain to a Republican regiment there; became chaplain at Dunkirk in 1658 to the Governor General, Andrew Rutherford, Earl of
Teviot; was afterwards chaplain to Alexander, first Earl of Balcarres, who died in exile at Breda in 1659, attended in his last moments by his chaplain P. F., described as "an honest-hearted and holy man"; returned to England in 1662; app. to Bishopric of Caithness by Charles II. 11th, ord. 19th March, and consecrated (at Holyrood) 7th May 1662; died in 1679, and was buried in Kirkwall Cathedral. He marr. in Holland (1) a daugh. of Colonel Erskine: (2) Katherine, daugh. of Patrick Scougal, Bishop of Aberdeen, and widow of William Scrogie, Bishop of Argyll, and had issue— John, Commissary of Caithness, died at Craigievar, Aberdeenshire, 25th Oct. 1668, and buried at Leochel; Jacobina Henrietta
or Hendrina (marr. (1) 1672, William Buchanan of Russland, (2) 13th Dec. 1700, James Fea of Whitehall, Orkney), died Sept. 1703; a daugh. (name unknown) (marr. Alexander Skene, D.D., min. of the Second Charge, Perth, afterwards Provost of St Salvator's College, St Andrews). [Craven's Hist, of Church in Caithness, 146-57; G. R. Homings, 5th July 1678;
G. R. Sas., 6th March 1701.]'
from Fasti Ecclesiae
Patrick married ERSKINE, daughter of Colonel ERSKINE and Unknown. (ERSKINE was born about 1615.)
Patrick next married Katherine SCOUGAL, daughter of Right Reverend Mr Patrick SCOUGAL Bishop of Aberdeen and Jean WEMYSS. (Katherine SCOUGAL was born about 1645.)
Marriage Notes:
Patrick was Catherine's second husband.
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