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Brigadier-General John Forbes (5 September 1707 – 11 March 1759) was a British Army officer. During the French and Indian War , he commanded the 1758 Forbes Expedition which occupied the French outpost of Fort Duquesne .
The Forbes Expedition was a British military campaign to capture Fort Duquesne, led by Brigadier-General John Forbes in 1758, during the French and Indian War. While advancing to the fort, the expedition built the Forbes Road .
Grandson of John Forbes, John Murray Forbes (1813–1898), born in France, John Murray Forbes was the first of the family to enter the China trade and later invested in railroads and amassed a large fortune. Francis Blackwell Forbes (1839–1908), poppy botanist, wrote a book on Chinese plants, opium trader in the China trade.
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Newminster Abbey was a civil parish: in 1891 the parish had a population of 174. [4] Newminster Abbey was formerly a township in Morpeth parish; [5] from 1866 Newminster Abbey was a civil parish in its own right [6] until it was abolished on 30 September 1894 and merged with Morpeth; part also went to form Newminster.
People from Morpeth, Northumberland, by occupation (1 C) Pages in category "People from Morpeth, Northumberland" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total.
It was earlier a far greater market place for local people than the market at Morpeth to the east, which did not receive a charter until 1199. Morpeth's market soon grew in prominence and Mitford fell from grace. This historic status of the two market town led to a folk rhyme: Mitforde was Mitforde when Morpeth was none,
The Orde, later Campbell-Orde Baronetcy, of Morpeth in the County of Northumberland, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 9 August 1790 for the naval commander John Orde. [1] He was the younger brother of Thomas Orde-Powlett, 1st Baron Bolton (see Baron Bolton for more information on this branch of the family). The ...