Arthur Patrick Hastings Forbes, 9th Earl of Granard

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(10 April 1915 – 21 November 1992), was a British peer.

Early life

Born on 10 April 1915, He was the son of

Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard Bernard Arthur William Patrick Hastings Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard, (17 September 1874 – 10 September 1948), styled Viscount Forbes from 1874 to 1889, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Liberal politician. Background Granard was the son of G ...

(1874–1948) and Beatrice (née Mills) Forbes, Countess of Granard (1883–1972), an American socialite who was the daughter of Ogden Mills and a descendant of the Livingston family and the

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from

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. He had one younger brother, the Hon. John Forbes, and two sisters, Eileen, Lady Bute of Scotland, and Moira, Countess Rossi of Switzerland. He was educated at Eton and

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. He received a BA from

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in 1937.

Career

Early in the

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, on 31 October 1939, he was appointed

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, being given the rank of

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. He used his own aircraft, a

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, to fly, often secretly, British subjects and other diplomats who had escaped from Poland during the German invasion from Cernăuți in Northern Romania (now

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) to

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and on to Greece or Turkey. On 30 October 1940, he was appointed deputy Air Attaché to Greece. Later in the war, he acted as an adviser to the Minister of State for the Middle East. After the war, he was appointed Air Attaché to

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. His decorations included the British Air Force Cross, the French

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and the American

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. From 1972 to 1990, he was a director of

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. Lord Granard also served as a director for other companies, including the Nabisco Group Ltd. and

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Personal life

Lord Granard was married to Marie-Madeleine Eugenie, Princess of Faucigny Lucinge, (d. 1990). Marie was the daughter of Jean Maurel and the first wife of Prince Humbert de Faucigny-Lucinge (a brother of

Prince de Cystria Bertrand Marie Ponce François Raphaël Lucinge (born Bertrand Marie Ponce François Raphaël de Faucigny-Lucinge et Coligny, 13 December 1898 – 22 February 1943) was a French racing driver and playboy. He competed under the ''nom de course'' ...

, both descendants of

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). Together, Marie and Lord Granard lived at Castleforbes demesne, the largest estate in

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, were the parents of two children: * Lady Moira Forbes (b. 1951), who married Prince Charles-Antoine Lamoral of Ligne-La Trémoïlle, son of Prince

Jean Charles Lamoral of Ligne-La Trémoïlle Prince Jean Charles Lamoral de La Trémoïlle of Ligne-La Trémoïlle (16 June 1911 – 9 July 2005), 14th Duke of Thouars, 13th Duke of La Trémoïlle, 16th Prince de Tarente, 20th Prince de Talmond and 20th Count of Laval,Almanach de Gotha, ''L ...

in February 1971. They divorced in 1975 and she married, secondly, José de Guerrico Casado-Sastre in 1978. * Lady Georgina Forbes (b. 1952), an owner of international showjumping horses. The Earl of Granard died at his home in Morges, Switzerland in 1992 at age seventy-seven. As he had no sons, his nephew Peter inherited the title and continues to be the holder.

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