George Forbes, sixth earl of Granard

(1760-1837)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Forbes George (1760-1837) 6th Earl of Granard DNB: Forbes, George, sixth earl of Granard (1760–1837), army officer LBT ID: LdGrana6	B/BAP: 1760-06-14 DIED: 1837-06-09
SOURCES: DNB; thePeerage.com
The son of the fifth earl (d. 1780); he was an Irish military officer and Whig politician who opposed the Union and was given a British peerage in 1806.
REFERENCES TO George Forbes, sixth earl of Granard: William Godwin to James Marshal, 2 August 1800 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 3 Thomas Creevey to Eleanor Creevey, 2 June 1812 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 7 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 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. XIII. 1800 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 Found 1: ¶ n1 Ch. VII: 1828