Robert Forbes (bishop)


Robert Forbes
Bishop of Ross and Caithness
ChurchScottish Episcopal Church
In office1762 to 1775
Orders
Ordination1735
by David Freebairn
Consecration24 June 1762
by William Falconer
Personal details
Born1708
Died1775 (aged 66–67)
NationalityScottish
DenominationEpiscopalian

Robert Forbes (1708–1775) was a Scottish historian and bishop of the Non-juring Scottish Episcopal Church. John Lorne Campbell has described Forbes as, "an Episcopalian clergyman and ardent Jacobite who later became bishop of Ross and Caithness, and who made it his life's work to collect all the reminiscences of participants in the 1745-6 rising as he could."[1] Historian John S. Gibson wrote, that the discovery of Bishop Forbes' research bound together into ten volumes in the library of a Scottish country house during the 1830s was, "alas, just too late for Sir Walter Scott."[2] His oral history collection was ultimately published posthumously in three volumes by the Scottish History Society as The Lyon in Mourning between 1895 and 1896 and became, according to John Lorne Campbell, "probably their most popular publication".[3]

  1. ^ John Lorne Campbell (1984), Canna: The Story of a Hebridean Island, Canongate Press, Edinburgh. p. 99.
  2. ^ John S. Gibson (1967), Ships of the Forty-Five: The Rescue of the Young Pretender, Hutchinson & Co. London. With a Preface by Sir James Fergusson of Kilkerran, Bart., L.L.D. p. 155.
  3. ^ John Lorne Campbell (1984), Canna; The Story of a Hebridean Island, Oxford University Press. p. 99.