Lewis William Forbes

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Lewis William Forbes (1794–1854) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1852, the highest position in the Church of Scotland

Life[]

Boharm Church

He was born in Banff, Aberdeenshire on 16 August 1794.

He was minister of Boharm, a small parish south of Fochabers in rural Banffshire, for 37 years.[1]

He died at the Church on 8 January 1854.[2] He is buried in Boharm Churchyard.[3]

Family[]

He was married twice. His first wife was Penelope Cowie. His son, Archibald Forbes (1838–1900), was a famous war correspondent. His daughter Margaret Chalmers Forbes (1821–1903) married the Very Rev William Robinson Pirie (1804–1885), Moderator in 1864. They had eight children.[4] She is buried in Old Machar Churchyard in Aberdeen. His second son, George Cowie Forbes, trained as a doctor and emigrated to the United States, dying in San Francisco in December 1850.[5] His second wife, Elizabeth Mary Forbes, died in 1892 and is buried in Allenvale Cemetery in Aberdeen.

References[]

  1. ^ Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, Scotland, vol 5
  2. ^ Boharm Kirk Session Records, 8 January 1854 CH2/1115/6 in National Records of Scotland catalogue. "The weather being still very bad, and the number of hearers very few, the Minister convened the Congregation in the Schoolroom: he was taken suddenly ill during the first prayer, and obliged to leave the room immediately after giving out a paraphrase, and in less than an hour after he was no more"
  3. ^ "Info" (PDF). www.mbgrg.org. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  4. ^ "Margaret Chalmers Forbes Pirie (1821-1900) - Find A Grave-gedenkplek".
  5. ^ Scots in the USA and Canada 1825-1875
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