Clan Forbes Society Blogs

For the first time in history, all ten hand-written volumes of the Jacobite memoir Lyon in Mourning, by Rev. Robert Forbes, Bishop of...

On March 8, 2023, Major (retd) Sir Andrew Iain Ochoncar Forbes, 13th Baronet (Bt.), peacefully passed away at home surrounded by family....

On February 15, 2023, Scottish First Minister Nicole Sturgeon announced that she would be stepping down after more than eight years in...

Before the Forbes family of colonial New York was making its mark on the silver trade, brother Gilbert was making his mark in quite a...

Craigievar Castle in Aberdeenshire is one of the most popular tourist attractions managed by the National Trust for Scotland. Not only is...

Long before the building of the 13th century “Old Tower” of the original Castle Forbes (now called Druminnor Castle), our Gaelic and...

Walter Forbes was born in 1798 at Crailing House in Palmood as the second son to James Ochoncar, 17th Lord Forbes, and his wife...

William, Prince of Wales, is a direct descendent of John Forbes of Boyndlie who diverted the Aberdeenshire “cess,”or propery taxes, to...

Forbes of Rires family members were fiercely loyal to Catholic Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, in the 16th century but became avid...

The January / February edition of HistoryScotland magazine has just hit the virtual stands with a two-page spread featuring the study of...

The 1542 Battle of Solway Moss led to the 1543 Treaty of Greenwich which promised that King Henry VIII’s son, the future Edward VI, would...

John “Black Jock” Forbes of Inverernan played an integral part in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 and founded a cadet branch of the House...