Lady Adelaide Forbes

(1789-1858)

LBT ID: AdForbe1858	B/BAP: 1789 DIED: 1858-12-09
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (March 1859) 327; Dowden, Journal of Thomas Moore (1983-91)
The daughter of Sir George Forbes, sixth earl of Granard, and Lady Selina Rawdon Forbes, who was the daughter of Thomas Moore's patron, the first earl of Moira. Byron once considered proposing to Lady Forbes; she never married.
REFERENCES TO Lady Adelaide Forbes: Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 13 July 1813 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 31 May 1814 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1813 Life of Byron: 1814 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Moore’s Byron. Part II” in Blackwood’s Magazine 27 (March 1830) 421-54 Found 1: ¶ 71 Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849, “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. III.” in New Monthly Magazine NS 35 (September 1832) 228-41 Found 1: ¶ 15 [John Mitford], “Lady Blessington's Conversations of Lord Byron” in The Gentleman’s Magazine NS 1 (April 1834) 347-58 Found 1: ¶ 37