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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 .
John Forbes and Company, the British firm of John Forbes (1767–1823) and his brother Thomas (†1808), a trading company active in the southeastern United States and India, from 1804 to 1847; John Murray Forbes (1813–1898), American banker and railroad president; John Malcolm Forbes (1847–1904), American businessman, yachtsman and horseman
Admiral of the Fleet John Forbes (17 July 1714 – 10 March 1796), styled The Honourable from 1734, was a Royal Navy officer. After taking part in an expedition to Lisbon to support the Portuguese in the face of a Spanish threat, he saw action as captain of the third-rate HMS Norfolk at the Battle of Toulon during the War of the Austrian Succession.
John Forbes (c.1568–1634) was a Scottish minister exiled by James VI and I. He founded a Church of Scotland in Middelburg in the Netherlands. [2] He was born about 1568, and was third son of William Forbes of Corse and Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Strachan of Thornton. He graduated M.A. at St Andrews in 1583, and was settled in Alford in ...
John Forbes Nash Jr. was born on June 13, 1928, in Bluefield, West Virginia. His father and namesake, John Forbes Nash Sr., was an electrical engineer for the Appalachian Electric Power Company . His mother, Margaret Virginia (née Martin) Nash, had been a schoolteacher before she was married.
When John turned 21, a party was held, and a cairn made on Lonach Hill in the Strathdon area in 1822, to celebrate. Further commemoration from 1823 led to the traditions of the Lonach Gathering . Cairn on Lonach Hill, Aberdeenshire , commemorating the 21st birthday of John Forbes (1801–1840)
John Forbes, 8th Lord Forbes (1542–1606) was a Scottish aristocrat. He was a son of William Forbes, 7th Lord Forbes (1513-1593) and Elizabeth Keith, the heiress of ...
John Forbes, drawing by John Partridge. Sir John Forbes FRCP FRS (17 December 1787 – 13 November 1861) was a Scottish physician, famous for his translation of the classic French medical text De L'Auscultation Mediate [1] by René Laennec, the inventor of the stethoscope. He was physician to Queen Victoria 1841–61.