Clan Forbes Society Blogs

Even though the COVID-19 pandemic has shut down many Highland games and Scottish festivals, the Forbes Spirit remains! Please join us on...

For two generations, the Forbes of Connecticut built forges and foundries, supplied the new American nation with a wide variety of iron...

The House of Forbes first met the Lindsays on the battlefield at Arbroath on 24 January 1445/46. The conflict was between rival claimants...

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Alexander Forbes (ca. 1464 – 1491), succeeded his father William “Grey Willie” Forbes as the 4th Lord Forbes in 1483. To secure the...

Edwin Austin Forbes (1839 – 1895) was an American artist who sketched and painted scenes of American Civil War, including dramatic...

One of the most enduring and consequential legacies of the House of Forbes is the Church of St. John the Apostle Scottish Church in the...

Sara Forbes Bonetta (1843 –1880) was a West African Egbado princess of the Yoruba people who was orphaned in intertribal warfare, forced...

The feud between Clan Forbes and Clan Leslie started in 1400 with a Leslie stealing and marrying the fiancée of a Forbes – and ended with...

The wars of Scottish Independence began with the death of King Alexander III (1241 – 1286) and his primary heirs. This left his...

John Forbes was born in Gamrie Parish in Banffshire, Scotland, to James Forbes and Sarah Gordon. His father's farm, the Mains of...

Overhead view of New Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire, Scotland To honor his family estate forfeited after the failed 1745 Jacobite Uprising,...