George John Forbes, viscount Forbes

(1785-1836)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Forbes, George John (1785-1836) Viscount Forbes, Major General LBT ID: GeForbe1836	B/BAP: 1785-05-03 DIED: 1836-11-13
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The son of George Forbes, sixth Earl of Granard, he was an Irish military officer, MP for County Longford (1806-32, 1833-36), and Lord-Lieutenant of County Longford.
REFERENCES TO George John Forbes, viscount Forbes: Thomas Creevey to Eleanor Creevey, 1 June 1812 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 15 October 1828 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IV 1825 Found 1: ¶ 21 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. VIII: 1812 Ch. VII: 1828