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 Death Announcements 1845-1854
| Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Forbes | | | First names | Charles | | | Rank / occupation | Merchant & MP & Baronet |  | Unit | Forbes & Co., Bombay | | | Death date | 20 Nov 1849 | | | Place of death | London  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | Feb 1850 | | | Page number | 208 | | | Detail | [Pages 208-209. In Fitzroy square in his 76th year. Son of the Rev. George Forbes of Lochell by the only dau. of Gordon Stewart, esq. of Innerourie. ""Had been for more than forty years head of the first mercantile and financial house in India, that of Forbes and Co. of Bombay"". ""Connected from early youth with India, and devoted to the welfare of its people, from principle as well as feeling, every faculty of his nature was enlisted in behalf of a country where he had spent the happiest years of his life, and in which a large portion of his fortune had been most honourably acquired"". Advocated ""Justice for India"" in Parliament and in the Proprietors' Court of the EIC. On retiring from India he was presented with a service of plate and 27 years after his departure from Bombay £9000 was subscribed for a statue to their friend and benefactor, the first instance of the local population doing that for someone unconnected with the civil or military. Now in the town hall of Bombay. Made a baronet 1823. Very charitable. Married 28 Feb 1800 Elizabeth, dau of Major John Cotgrave, of the Madras Army. She survives him, 4 sons & 2 daus. The eldest was John, who died in 1840] |
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