Walter Gammell Forbes, 18th Lord Forbes (29 May 1798 – 2 May 1868) was a Scottish peer.

Biography

Walter Forbes was the son of

James Ochoncar Forbes James Ochoncar Forbes, 18th Lord Forbes (1765–1843), was a Scottish soldier and peer. He was the eldest son of James Forbes, 17th Baron Forbes, by Catherine, only daughter of Sir Robert Innes, baronet, of Orton. The lands of Forbes, Aberdeen ...

, 17th Lord Forbes and Elizabeth Hunter. He was a member of the Coldstream Guards and served as one of the youngest officers during the

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. After the war, he built the new Forbes Castle in

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, in 1815. He married Horatia Shaw on 31 January 1825 and had three children – Hon. Horace Courtenay Gammel Forbes, Hon. Charles Murray Hay Forbes, and Hon. Atholl Monson Forbes. On 4 April 1864, he married Louisa Ormond and had two children – Hon. Walter Robert Drummond Forbes and Hon. Montagu Ormond Forbes. Walter Forbes is in buried in Brompton Cemetery in

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. He was succeeded in turn by his eldest son, Horace, who committed suicide in 1914 and his third son Atholl Monson (his second son Charles having died in 1874).

References

*Wood's Edition. Sir Robert Douglas Peerage of Scotland. Under Forbes, Lords of. *4 London Gazette Issue 23294 page 74 of 130 Go to page 4734 23 August 1867. 1798 births 1868 deaths Coldstream Guards officers British Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars Burials at Brompton Cemetery Lords Forbes {{Lord-of-Parliament-stub