Sir John Stuart Hepburn Forbes, 8th Baronet, of

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, of

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and Pitsligo,

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(1804–1866) was a Scottish baronet, landowner, advocate and agriculturalist. His name sometimes appears as Hepburn-Forbes.

Life

He was born in Dean House in western

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on 25 September 1804 the son of Williamina Belches Stuart of Invermay and Sir William Forbes of Monymusk and Pitsligo, 7th baronet. His younger brothers included

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. He studied law at the

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, and qualified as an advocate in 1826. When his father died in 1828 he became 8th baronet, and took over the family home at 86 George Street. His country estate was at

. In 1833 he was elected a Fellow of the

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his proposer being

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. He died in

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on 28 May 1866. Due to the lack of male heir the baronetcy passed to his nephew, William Stuart Forbes (1835-1906), son of Charles Hay Forbes, thereafter being titled as 9th baronet.

Family

In 1834 he married Lady Harriet Louisa Anne Kerr (d.1884), daughter of

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. They had one daughter, Harriet Williamina Hepburn-Forbes (1835-1869), who was the mother of

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Publications

*''On the Constitutions and Statistics of the Friendly Societies of the Counties of Aberdeen, Banff and Kincardine'' *''On Agricultural Meteorology''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Forbes, John Stuart Hepburn 1804 births 1866 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Scottish agriculturalists Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia