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72 GRANARD. GRANARD and GRANARD OF CASTLE DONINGTON. Viscountcy [I.] ]. Sir Arthur Forbes,(») Bart. [S.], s. and h. of Sir I. 1675. Arthur Forbes, Bart. [8.] (who was so cr. 26 Sep. 1628, and who received large grants of land in co. Longford, and co. Ltitrim, Earldom [I. J erected into the manor of "Castle Forbes), by Jane, widow of Sir I lS'U Alexander Hamilton, da. of Robert Lauder, of the Buss, sue. his 0 ' father in 1632, being then aged nine years; was in Command in Scotland for the Royal Cause, and on the Restoration was (1661), made a Commissioner of the Court of Claims [I.] ; M.P. for co. Tyrone, 1661 ; P.C. [L]j Marshal of the Army [I.], 1670; one of the Lords Justices [J.] 1671, 1675 and 1684, being cr. 22 Nov. 1675.(b) BARON CLANEHUO-H and Y1S< '( H.'NT t)F GRANARD,co. Longford [I.], and, subseuuently,30 Dec. 16S4,( l >) EARLOF GRANARD [I.] In 16S4, he was made Col. of the ISth Foot [I.], and Lieut. Gen. in the Army, resigning office under James II., but being made B.C. [I.], in 1690, by William III., and taking his seat in Pari., 20 Oct. 1692. !le m. Catharine, widow of Sir Alexander Stewart, da. of Sir Robert Newcomen, 4th Bart. [I.], by his first wife, Anne, da. of (— ) BOUTS. He d. in 1695 and was bur. at Newtown "Forbes. Will dat. 12 March 1693. His widow d. in Dublin, 8 Dec. 1714, and was bur. with him. II. 1695. Arthur (Forbes), Earl of Granard, &c. [I.], 1st s. and h., 4. about 1656, styled Viscount Forbes, 1684-95; was in command of the ISth Foot [I.], 1685, but deprived thereof by William III. and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Ho served under Tureuue and was (16S6) at the siege of Bttda ; sue. to the peerage [I.] in 1695, taking his seat, 2 Aug. 1707. Lord Lieut, of co. Longford. He m., Oct. 1678, Mary, 1st da. of Sir George Rawdon, 1st Bart. [I.], of Moira, by his second wife, Dorothy, da. of Edward (Conway), 2d Viscount Conway. She, who was b. 1661, d. 1 and was far. 3 April 1724, at St. Mary's, Dublin, whence she was conveyed to Moira, co. Down. He if. at Symou's Court, near Dublin, 24 Aug. 1734, and was &!<)•. at Newtown Forbes. [Arthur Forbes, styled Viscount Forbes, 1st s. and h. ap. ; Capt. of Foot. He rf. unm. v.p., being killed at the battle of Uochstedt, 13 Aug. 1701.] III. 1734. S. George (Forbes), Earl of Granard, &c. [I.], 3d but 1st burv. s. and b. ; b. in Ireland, 21 Oct. 1685 ; styled Viscount Forbes, 1704-34 ; waa a commander in the Royal Navy as early as 1706, being, at his death, Senior Admiral ; M.P. for Queenborough, co. Kent, 1723-27 ; was sum. v.p. to the Irish House of Lords by writ 27 Feb. 1725, and took his seat there (as "Lord Forbes") 7 Sep. following n c ) was Commander in Chief of the Caribbee Islands, Sep. to Dec. 1729; Plenipotentiary to the Court of Muscovy, 1733 to 1734 ; sue. to the Peerage [I.], 1734 ; M.P. for the Ayr burghs (in Scotland), 1741-47 ; P.C. [I.J ; Gov. of the counties of Longford and Westmeath till 1756. Ho m. Mary, widow of Phineas Preston, 1st da. of William (Stewart), 1st Viscount Mountjoy [I.], by Mary, da. of Richard (Coote), 1st Baron COOTB ok Coloony [I.] She d. 4 and was bur. 11 Oct. 1758, at Hackney, co. Midx., aged 85. He d. 19 June 1765, aged 60, uud was bur. at Newtown Forbes. IV. 1765. 4- George (Forbes), Earl of Granahd, &c. [I.], lsts. and h., b. in England 15 March 1710; entered the Army, 1726 ; styled Viscount Forbes, 1 734-65 ;( u ) Lieut. Col. of the Tangier Regiment, 1746; (_ a ) A history of the family (" Memoirs of the Earls of G randi'd") was written in 1770, by Admiral the Hon. John Forbes, and edited in 1868 (Loudon 8vo), by tho 7 th Earl of Granard. ( b ) The preamble to each of these patents is iu " Lodge," vol. ii, p. 145, as also in Forties's " Jiarls of Granard. (') See vol. i, p. 2, note "a," sub " Abercorn," for a list (only nine in all) of the eldest Bona of Irish Peers sum. v.p. to the House of Lords [I.] ( d ) He was in the engagement against the fleets of France and Spain off Toulon, in